[syslinux] boot from different partition

Aniyan Rajan aniyan.rajan6 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 05:50:52 PST 2013


Andre,

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:25 PM, André Ericson <de.ericson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Syslinux does not currently support accessing another partition. I have
> been working on it, but sadly I don't know when will I be able to finish.
>
> As far as I know, the only way for Syslinux to access another partition is
> with the chain COM32.
>

In my case the chainloading also won't work it seems, as I am using
squashfs as the second partition and syslinux doesn't seem to boot from the
squashfs (during chainloading). I think syslinux will boot only from fat
and ntfs. Please let me know if my understanding is correct.

Thanks.


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