[syslinux] Want to have a menu boot system

Karl Schmidt
Wed, 18 May 2011 20:50:06 -0000

I would like to have a SINGLE thumb-drive that would let me boot the following:

DOS - various flavors for flashing BIOS (need to be able to update the image
with bios files)
breakin
debian install - various flavors
knoppix
Hitachi Drive Fitness Test
Seagate SeaTools
SystemRescueCD
Memtest86
burnin

Sometimes there is no network connection, but it would be nice to be able to
chain boot into
PXELINUX and have a menu there as well.

The ability to copy any sort of boot image as a file to boot and have a simple
config file as the
only thing to update.

I once made a key to boot debian installer with syslinux - I think updating only
requires changin
the iso image. ( I was able to duplicate this key easily (but slowly) with a dd
copy ).

Seems likely that someone has already crafted such a device - wondering if
someone has such a key
(minus the images) that I could borrow a gzipped dd copy image?  Or at least
point me in the right
direction to spend my limited time building my own.





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