[syslinux] [syslinux:disklib] disklib: make CHS calculation match core/fs/diskio.c

Ferenc Wagner wferi at niif.hu
Mon Oct 18 05:22:22 PDT 2010


Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> writes:

> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Shao Miller wrote:
>
>> There is definitely something nice about pre-OS control, where
>> Syslinux and its wonderful shuffler can "get out of the way" and
>> boot an OS after doing other useful things...
>
> Apart from imaging, I can see a future C32 partition editor (fdisk
> style) and who knows even a partition editor and filesystem
> manipulation tool (gparted style) directly from the bootloader :-)

That would make even more sense if syslinux could be instructed to
override the active flag and perhaps even the current disk...  Reading
kernel+initrd from a system with a botched bootloader would be oh so
useful.
-- 
Cheers,
Feri.




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