[syslinux] isolinux.cfg location?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Nicolas Bigaouette wrote:
> Thanx for the feedback and the clarification.
> 
> I tough of "merging" config files, but it's not quite the way I see the
> CD I'm creating. I'm booting that cd with CDShell, witch can load
> isolinux. I want to make a choice in CDShell of "Insert" or "Damn Small
> Linux". That choice would bring the same screen as if the computer was
> booted with the respective Live CD. Right now I'm calling CDShell's
> implementation of isolinux with the default parameters of those livecd.
> But I'd like to have the isolinux screen with the "boot:" prompt, the
> live cd's logo, the boot options, etc. I'm limited right now to just the
> default options.
> 
> It seems possible to pass some options to isolinux as of
> http://cdshell.org/doc/cmdref.html#isolinux. Even if it says that the
> arguments would be interpreted by isolinux as if entered at the "boot:"
> prompt, it still seems possible for isolinux to "receive information"
> from CDShell or another boot loader booted before isolinux.
> 
> If syslinux relies on a some variables being initialized at load time,
> it could relies also on some other variables to get the location of the
> configuration files. I don't really understand what you meant by "they
> would have to be reset before a new config file can be loaded"... I
> didn't meant "load a different config file from an already loaded
> isolinux" if this is what you tought I wanted...
> 

The two problems are largely equivalent, though.

	-hpa