[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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