[syslinux] Returning to syslinux bootloader

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Apr 16 07:59:58 PDT 2009


Erwan Velu wrote:
> Any hints on how it could be done ?
> At least, I could be interested in HDT being able to return to hdt after
> running as external tool like memtest etc...
> 
> Cheers,
> Erwan

You'd have to return all hardware and all BIOS memory to the state it
was before the target was invoked.  The complexity of this depends on
the target.  Linux, for example, is very complex.

The clean way to do this is through the reset path.

	-hpa

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