[syslinux] pxe booting an iso image?

Christian Marg
Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:29:14 -0000

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Hello...

L wrote:
| I've can boot floppy images (eg toms, barts) booting via pxe.  I can
also boot
| initrd's via pxe.  Would be very cool to be able to boot iso's
(knoppix,
| gentoo-basic) via pxe also.

Not possible, since emulating a CDROM drive on BIOS level is an
unneccessary hard job and even if it was implemented: Linux uses direct
hardware access once the kernel is started. So it wouldn't find the
CD-Emulation. On a bootable CD there has to be a file for the kernel and
the Floppy images. Use them for your PXE-Linux-Config. If they use
ISOlinux it might even be more straightforward - look in their
config-file and copy the needed bits...

bye
Christian
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