[syslinux] CHAINing to a USB Thumb Drive

[Bernd Blaauw]

>
> COREBOOT seems/looks promising !  Thanx for the heads-up.  Further 
> reading will be needed to determine if a *generic* CD-based, 1st-stage 
> boot (via COREBOOT) is pos, but this is at least new and purposeful info 
> (to me.) 
>   

Coreboot is the new name for the LinuxBIOS project. It's quite 
interesting, as it's an opensource BIOS replacement with 
additional/different abilities compared to traditional BIOS.
I have no idea if any project has a complete isolated software El-Torito 
stack to allow CD booting. Smart Boot Manager has one, but it's 
integrated into the program itself. GRUB might be able to do CD booting 
as well. There exists a COM32 port (done by Jeremy Davis) of Smart Boot 
Manager, and it's included in one of the bootdisks made for an old 
version of the Freedos project:
http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/beta9sr1/disksets/1440KB/B9BOOT01.IMG

Bernd