[syslinux] Booting Linux from Windows

[Martin Stolpe]

Hello,

because of Windows' hibernation bug I want to boot Linux using the
Windows boot manager. I followed this guide:
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_BCD but unfortunately
only "Boot error" is shown when I try to boot Linux.

Layout of the disk looks like this:
/dev/sda1   *      0+     16-     17-    131072   83  Linux  (Linux
boot partition)
/dev/sda2         16+  35476-  35460- 284830720    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
(Windows partition)
/dev/sda3      35476+  60801-  25326- 203423768    f  W95 Erw. (LBA)
/dev/sda4          0       -       0          0    0  Leer
/dev/sda5      35476+  36520-   1045-   8388608   82  Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6      36520+  60801-  24281- 195033112   83  Linux (Linux
root partition)

The boot flag is set to the Linux boot partition right now, because I
booted into Linux.

Am I missing something here? How does the partition boot sector know
where it has to search for the boot loader?


Greetings
Martin