[syslinux] Installing SYSLINUX in PBR, not MBR?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Josh Lehan wrote:
> Hi.  Are there any gotchas to installing SYSLINUX in the PBR of a 
> partition, and not the MBR of the overall hard drive?

SYSLINUX Is *always* installed in a PBR.

> The reason I want to do this, is to take my "PXE-on-a-disk" project, and 
> install it simply into one very small (1MB or so) FAT16 partition.
> 
> ftp://ftp.scyld.com/private/jlehan/pxe-on-a-disk.html
> 
> This partition would be placed near the very beginning of the drive.
> 
> The goal is to have a way of choosing to boot PXE or the fully-installed 
> operating system, on a "lights-out" installation, without having to 
> physically intervene and change the computer's BIOS settings.  This 
> particular PC can't be remotely administered, unfortunately.
> 
> I'm hoping to accomplish this by setting the active flag of the 
> partition table, to the partition I want.

Yup, that should work fine.

	-hpa