[syslinux] Boot image from hard drive from syslinux initiated by a floppy disk boot

[H. Peter Anvin]

Bernd Blaauw wrote:
> mailbox.t schreef:
>> I have a syslinux boot floppy which loads to the boot prompt, I wish to 
>> load a .gz image which is on my hd0 0 by using memdisk as the kernel. I 
>> have tried to kernel memdisk append root=/dev/hd0  0 (also just using 
>> /hd0) initrd=mini.gz and   kernel memdisk initrd=/dev/hd0 0/mini.gz and 
>> a multitude of other things to try to accomplish this. But each time it 
>> responds "mini.gz cannot be found.
>> hd0 0 loads fine using chain.c32 from the floppy
>>   
> Syslinux flavours only seem to support a boot image coming from the same 
> bootdevice.
> Booting from a burned CD with a testing disk-image located on diskette 
> for example could be worthwile,
> saves you creating a new ISO (or even CD).
> 
> Something like:
> kernel isolinux/memdisk
> append initrd=(fd0)/fdboot.img
> 

This is for all practical purposes impossible to do within the framework 
of syslinux; it pretty much means turning syslinux into GRUB with all 
the problems that entails.

This is not going to happen.

	-hpa