[syslinux] OFF TOPIC: Chainloading CD-ROM boot after ISOLINUX + MEMDISK.

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jul 25 13:30:28 PDT 2008


Harald_Jensas at Dell.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is off topic for this list, but someone on this list may be able to point me in the right direction.
> 
> For a couple of years I have been using ISOLINUX + MEMDISK and Smart Boot Manager to chainload a CD-ROM boot after loading a floppy image into RAM with MEMDISK. 
> 
> My problem now is that Smart Boot Manager does not support/detect SATA optical drives used in new hardware.
> 
> Does anyonw know if there are any other bootloader out there that can chainload an CD-ROM boot?
> 

SATA is making this very difficult, since unlike PATA there isn't a 
standard interface for SATA (some, but not all controllers can be used 
in PATA emulation mode.)

What exactly are you trying to do?

	-hpa




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