[syslinux] Boot Linux ram disk image from DOS prompt

[Vanush Misha Paturyan]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:31:43 -0200 "Leandro Becker"
<Lbecker at positivo.com.br> wrote:

> But this is meant to be run on the creation of boot disk right? How I
> can do this after boot ramdisk DOS and make DOS change next syslinux
> boot to Linux?

what about creating two partitions on the disk, install DOS into one of
them, linux into the other and toggle "bootable" flag of the partition
you want to boot next? "pure" MBR record will try and boot from the
partition marked as active. Maybe if syslinux is installed on the 0th
sector (Where MBR code should be), it can interrogate partition table
and "chain" it? (this of course will only work if you are using MBR
partition table).

Misha

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Vanush "Misha" Paturyan
Senior Technical Officer
Room 1.37
Computer Science Department
NUI Maynooth
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