[syslinux] Is it possible to chainload EXTLINUX from GRUB?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Oct 17 18:25:24 PDT 2006


Gavin D. Smith wrote:
> I have just tried placing EXTLINUX on a primary partition and indeed I 
> successfully chainloaded it. However this doesn't seem to work when I 
> put it on a logical partition. Is there a reason why there might be a 
> difference between the two types?

Not if the chainloading code is written properly.  Chainloading onto a 
logical partition means you have to load not the MBR but the pseudo-MBR 
containing the logical partition in question at address 0x600 and point 
DS:SI to it.

Sounds like a Grub problem to me.

	-hpa




More information about the Syslinux mailing list