Syslinux - Jan 2005 - ElTorito from Floppy (was: Re: Can I use...)

a member of the FreeDOS project has transformed Smart Boot Manager into a COM32
module for Syslinux. Might be a bit more usefull than Syslinux -> memdisk
-> imagefile -> Smart Boot Manager ( -> 'boot from cd -> cdrom )

I've inserted it into this diskette image:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/beta9sr1/fdos1440.img

That's nice to boot cdroms. There's no way to boot ISOs (yet?). A Linux
floppy with kernel+initrd should be able to mount an ISO or ZISOFS file (Knoppix
does this for example)

To my knowledge, no one has extracted SBM's eltorito stack yet. It would
have been usefull as payload for a project like LinuxBIOS for example,
especially now that they have VGA BIOS working properly. Welcome to an
opensource BIOS :)

To promote a FreeDOS component a bit more:
the SYS program, also maintained by that same member, is able to transfer system
files for all major DOS, and also create a GPL bootsector for it (except Win9x),
and additionally it also has the abilities of the COPYBS program in Syslinux
package (dump/restore bootsector)

now that I've learned that Syslinux installation files are contained in just
a single binary (syslinux.exe/com), it's even easier to create multiboot
systems.

a DIFF for the SBM from 'program' --> 'c32 module' is also
available.

Next goal: open source ATAPI cdromdriver (improvement).

Bernd


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