[syslinux] [PATCH] mboot: set boot device

[Sebastian Herbszt]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/14/2010 04:35 AM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> On 07/10/2010 01:00 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I did some testing and the following code mimics grub's behaviour.
>>>> Comments?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have to admit to be somewhat questioning to handling floppies but not
>>> hard disks... in this day and age when floppies are virtually nonexistent.
>>>
>>> -hpa
>> 
>> What about only handling SYSLINUX_FS_PXELINUX and
>> SYSLINUX_FS_ISOLINUX for now?
>> 
> 
> Actually, SYSLINUX_FS_ISOLINUX is not the right thing to check for...
> the right thing to check for is a zero partition offset.
> 
> -hpa

Care to elaborate?
ISOLINUX boots in no emulation mode; which disk should it check for
a partition?

Sebastian