[syslinux] Boot off FAT based ISO image?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Sep 15 08:19:26 PDT 2010


On 09/15/2010 02:15 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> 
> I've thought a lot about this; and realising that the init-ramdisk of
> legacy iso's would not be attempting to mount a nested iso anyway, there
> is no need for syslinux to provide a transparent mapping service for
> legacy isolinux; rather a new isolinux may be able to do it's own
> mapping directly using the vfat layer also used by syslinux.
> 
> This extra layer of indirection is probably within the bounds of my own
> capability if it suits you to accept such work?
> 

If it's clean.

	-hpa

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