[syslinux] [PATCH] mboot: set boot device

[H. Peter Anvin]

Isolinux boots in no-emulation (zero offset) *or* in hybrid mode, the latter of which can use a partition!

"Sebastian Herbszt" <herbszt at gmx.de> wrote:

>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
>

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