[syslinux] Isolinux CD to Hard drive

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jun 23 09:21:14 PDT 2006


Person Hiding wrote:
> I'm still missing something here, cause, when using chain.c32 I've got the "Booting..." message and nothing happens.  I wonder if my setup is possible, or I'm trying to do something not doable ?  this is what I did exactely :
>    
>   - Format a small harddrive using Fat16
>   - Syslinux -s c:\   using syslinux 3.11
>   - Copy all .img files from isolinux to that drive
>   - rename the isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg to be able to get the menu
>   - changed localboot to chain.c32 (thanks to hpa)
>    
>   All the .img files worked perfectly except when I ask to boot from another hard drive !  Now, is this possible knowing that I already booted to that small hard drive ??
>    

A lot of operating systems don't like being booted from anything but the 
first floppy or the first hard disk.

	-hpa




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