Today I finnally got the motivation to build a bootable cd,
I encountered a few ones before, I know they're all using
isolinux, but they always use initrd and
the root filesystem is stored in a disk image file.
I wondered if it's really neccessary to do that, according to
the mkisofs manpage all the essential features like uid, gid,
permission, symbolic/hard links are supported using the Rock
Riedge extension, so I thought it's worth a try to directly
mount the cdrom as root device by passing root=/dev/sr0 to the
kernel command line.
I tried this and it worked really well, sending out this good
news and my appreciation to the syslinux developers!
