[syslinux] Dual-booting VMware and chainbooting GRUB

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:35:01 -0400
Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now, as far as 3.63 to 3.86, there were new COMBOOT API calls
> introduced (and deprecated).  You'll need to either strictly use 3.63,
> figure out how to get a safeboot.c32 module (which, by the looks of
> it, I think is VMware closed source, unfortunately) for 4.xx, or
> gamble and try to install 3.86 and use the standard modules from 3.86
> while using VMware's safeboot.c32.

Thanks for the tip. I used chain.c32 from 3.36, shipped with Fedora 7,
and it worked fine on top of VMware's Syslinux 3.63.

-- Pete