[syslinux] Proposal for Chain-Loadable LDLINUX.SYS

[Bernd Blaauw]

Op 2-1-2013 3:32, Shao Miller schreef:

> Time to review the (a) multiboot specification, anyway.  Thanks. :)

ReactOS' FreeLDR bootloader/bootmanager might be a succesfull reference 
implementation of combined multiboot and legacy loading.



I'm not sure what the spec says about finding config files though.
Behaviour is:

[1] bootsector -> A:\FREELDR.SYS -> A:\FREELDR.INI
[2] bootsector -> A:\LDLINUX.SYS -> A:\SYSLINUX.CFG -> A:\MBOOT.C32 ->
   A:\FREELDR.SYS -> C:\FREELDR.INI (doesn't search original bootdisk)

2nd case is quite annoying when C: doesn't contain the config file or 
you have a modified version on floppy.

Benefit though of the multiboot style is gz-compression support, thus 
reducing size of the kernel binary on disk.

Bernd