[syslinux] MEMDISK El Torito Emulation

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/20/2009 09:22 AM, John Rouillard wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:00:30PM +0000, Kim Mik wrote:
>> After I compiled MEMDISK with the 2 patches added after the
>> release of syslinux 3.84-pre4, it did work great :-D.
>>
>> I also tried Dell diagnostics (iso with a hard disk emulation
>> boot sector) in qemu and it looks like it works. I don't know
>> any other iso's that use hard disk emulation.
> 
> Does anybody know if the clonezilla iso will work with the patched
> memdisk?  When I tried it with the iso patched memdisk it died after
> loading the kernel while trying to find some fils outside the boot
> partition IIRC (not at the office today so I can't test). I wasn't
> sure at the time if it was trying to read from the cd directory or or
> if there was some other thing (like hard disk emulation) going on.
> 

Keep in mind that almost no iso which actually attempts to access files
from the operating system will work, since that requires drivers in the
target operating system.

This is just the nature of the beast.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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