[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
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