[syslinux] SDI loading patch

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andrew Stuart wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>> I have a small sdi for booting Vista installs, but I think it relies 
>>> on a few other files as well. If I can get a binary of the com32 I can 
>>> figure out what files you need and tar it up for you.
>>> (I don't use / have access to a linux box currently)
>> http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/syslinux/sdi.c32
>>
>>     -hpa
> 
> Okay, I need to take off for the evening. I didn't have any luck. The 
> image I built works off cd, but by being booted from sdi.c32 fails. 
> Before I say it's broken though, I want to review the documentation that 
> goes along with the inital patch, to see if there is anything special I 
> need to do.
> 

I appreciate the help.

It might be worth building the original patch (which looks like it's 
against syslinux-2.11) and see if that boots the image or not.  I built 
what still builds of syslinux-2.11 with current tools, with the patch, 
and put it at:

http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/syslinux/syslinux-2.11-sdi.tar.gz

It's actually kind of shocking looking at this old code and realizing 
just how much development has happened between then and now...

	-hpa