Syslinux - Feb 2012 - Isolinux question: booting multiple ISOs from one CD

Hi everyone.
I need a hint.
I have a running pxelinux system with a lot of submenues in production 
usage. Nearly the same structure I have in production usage from 
USB-sticks (syslinux and memdisk).
No I want to have the same structure also bootable form a CD.
Unfotunally my main applications are only available as .iso -files. no 
chance to get them bootable with eg vmlinuz.
The iso contains only the boot.cat, boot.bin and no.emul_00.

Any ideas or food of thought are wellcome.

bye
Christoph

You can create a bootable iso with isolinux and create a nice looking menu with
menu.c32.

When creating your menu, you can choose what kernel and initramfs or initrd to
load.

You can even go as far as creating your very own initramfs that can dynamically
mount iso's contained in the cdrom using the kernel command line and your
initramfs logic.

--
Mickey


On Feb 5, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Christoph Hanle wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> I need a hint.
> I have a running pxelinux system with a lot of submenues in production
usage. Nearly the same structure I have in production usage from USB-sticks
(syslinux and memdisk).
> No I want to have the same structure also bootable form a CD.
> Unfotunally my main applications are only available as .iso -files. no
chance to get them bootable with eg vmlinuz.
> The iso contains only the boot.cat, boot.bin and no.emul_00.
> 
> Any ideas or food of thought are wellcome.
> 
> bye
> Christoph
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On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 09:59, Christoph Hanle
<christoph.hanle at leinpfad.de> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> I need a hint.
> I have a running pxelinux system with a lot of submenues in production
> usage. Nearly the same structure I have in production usage from USB-sticks
> (syslinux and memdisk).
> No I want to have the same structure also bootable form a CD.
> Unfotunally my main applications are only available as .iso -files. no
> chance to get them bootable with eg vmlinuz.
> The iso contains only the boot.cat, boot.bin and no.emul_00.
>
> Any ideas or food of thought are wellcome.
Start looking at the following:

http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK#ISO_images

It may not work for all ISOs but for any real-mode system, it should.
Some Linux ISOs can be compatible by the nature of searching for a
MEMDISK.  Most other protected mode OSs loose track of it and "loose"
the memory that's occupied.

-- 
-Gene