[syslinux] Patch for chain.c32: Set default boot drive to CD drive from which ISOLINUX is booted
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Thu Jul 23 17:26:05 PDT 2009
Kim Mik wrote:
> Not only grub4dos (grldr) needs the patch to boot correctly after being chainloaded by chain.c32
> when run from ISOLINUX.
>
> If you want to boot Windows 2000/XP/2003 , from a CD/DVD with ISOLINUX,
> by chainloading SETUPLDR.BIN with chain.c32, chain.c32 needs to pass the
> CD drive from which ISOLINUX was booted as root drive to SETUPLDR.BIN.
>
> If you want to boot Windows Vista/2008/7, from a CD/DVD with ISOLINUX,
> by chainloading bootmgr with chain.c32, chain.c32 needs to pass the
> CD drive from which ISOLINUX was booted as root drive to bootmgr.
Applied and a build pushed out as 3.83-pre1.
-hpa
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