[syslinux] chainboot Windows on second drive
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Thu Jun 12 17:53:57 PDT 2008
Aeron Draxar wrote:
>
> Yes, I can understand isolinux and maybe pxelinux won't have much use
> of a swapping function. I hope you'll find some time one day to
> implement it because I can't install extlinux on my raid array
> (because of raid and stability) :(
> The only solution I've found is, from extlinux, chainloading a linux
> grub that immediately swaps and chainloads Windows…
>
I have a first-cut implementation of this and pushed it out as
syslinux-3.70-pre17. To use it:
label WinXP
menu label ^Windows XP
kernel chain.c32
append hd1 -swap
I would appreciate it if you could help test it out.
-hpa
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