Is there a method by which one could boot an ISO image from a flash drive with syslinux? -- Dimeneira aka Dime
Karch wrote:> Is there a method by which one could boot an ISO image from a flash drive > with syslinux? >No. Read the mailing list archive for more details, a very similar question was asked just yesterday or the day before. -A
Dime, Karch <dimeneira at gmail.com> wrote: Is there a method by which one could boot an ISO image from a flash drive with syslinux? -- Dimeneira aka Dime _______________________________________________ while its a special case, the Knoppix ISO (5.1+) supports this with a cheat code called "bootfrom" ---------------------- begin grub.conf -------------------------------- title Knoppix 5.10 kernel (hd0,4)/boot/knoppix.402/linux ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 nomce quiet bootfrom=/dev/hda10/boot/knoppix.402/*.iso noprompt dma screen=1680x1050 myconfig$ initrd (hd0,4)/boot/knoppix.402/minirt_51.gz ---------------------------- end snip -------------------------------------------- -- Mark --------------------------------- Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos.
Andrew Stuart <andrew at shopcusa.com> wrote:>> > Is there a method by which one could boot an ISO image from a flash drive >> > with syslinux? >> > > No. Read the mailing list archive for more details, a very similar > question was asked just yesterday or the day before.This would be an excellent advice, were it not for the fact that the SYSLINUX list's archive generation seems to be malfunctioning :-( Just check the archive for October which is missing several days' worth of list entries: http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2007-October/thread.html Are there any chances that the archive can be fixed ? Thanks, Ole