[syslinux] chainloading syslinux from an EFI partition to an ext4

[Stoppa, Igor]

On 6 June 2015 at 17:22, Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:

> FWIW, the most current (or "up-to-date") documentation about chain.c32
> at this time is located at:
>  http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Chain.c32

Yes, I had a look at that, but frankly the archlinux pages were
more newbie-friendly, so my research is 50% based on what I found
there and for the rest syslinux.org and the internet at large.

> Note that, in the official wiki of The Syslinux Project, the wiki pages
> containing "... /Doc/ ..." are mainly copies of documents already
> included in some official release, which are usually outdated.
>
>
> As per the intended setup, it is not possible. There are several
> reasons for such impossibility.

Could you elaborate a bit more? What are the impediments?

> *Independently of this particular case*, if someone wants to improve
> chain.c32 (or any other part of Syslinux), patches are welcome.

I have no experience with bootloaders, but I could give it a shot,
if I had some confidence that it's a task I can tackle within the
time I have been given to find a solution.

Unfortunately my set of choices is fairly limited, so syslinux
still seems a possible solution, if the effort to modify it is
compatible with my skills and time frame.

In that sense, a hint of what to do would also be very appreciated.

Ex: would it be more reasonable to improve support for chainloading
or to add support for loading a kernel from another partition?

-- 
igor