[syslinux] Embedding com32 modules and ldlinux.sys into one file

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jan 15 10:40:48 PST 2016


On 01/14/2016 02:50 PM, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux wrote:
> On 01/13/16 00:13, Tal Lubko via Syslinux wrote:
>>
>> OK. I'll try that.
>> Any thoughts regarding the requirement to store the bootloader inside the BIOS chip?
>>
> 
> That is fundamentally up to your BIOS.  The best is to expose the
> bootloader in the BIOS as a (readonly) disk drive using standard BIOS or
> EFI interfaces.
> 

Now, if you are using EFI, you might just want to consider just running
the kernel itself as an EFI executable.

If with "bootloader in memory" you mean the whole firmware package, look
at EDK2, Coreboot, or uboot.

	-hpa




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