[syslinux] Live linux booting

[Bernd Blaauw]

Op 20-8-2011 20:34, Karl Schmidt schreef:
> Right now I'm looking at parted magic - I want to add a script to mount
> a nfs and run a script there - but I'm having problems extracting the
> squashfs on my Debian box..

I'm no Linux user/expert, wouldn't booting this distro (either real 
hardware or an emulator) be more helpful to analyse things?

http://partedmagic.com/doku.php
(and there's some PXE topics and downloads as well, and a forum).

> My main effort was to find something that would pxe boot - or run
> completely out of RAM. (I'm actually booting off a SSD drive for speed,
> but want to be able to unplug the boot drive for access to the SATA
> ports. )

Specific topic which discussed implementing booting Linux distro as 
single (ISO) file:
http://forums.partedmagic.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1066