From: hpa Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:58:32 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Note that booting other OSes currently applies to SYSLINUX only; if you're X-Git-Tag: syslinux-3.11~834 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=460ff10f93fe0f3724e98fe36fe00583250e863d;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fsyslinux.git Note that booting other OSes currently applies to SYSLINUX only; if you're building a bootable CD-ROM you may just want to use ISOLINUX. --- diff --git a/syslinux.doc b/syslinux.doc index bdf36d6..28a020f 100644 --- a/syslinux.doc +++ b/syslinux.doc @@ -410,6 +410,8 @@ qualified. ++++ BOOTING DOS (OR OTHER SIMILAR OPERATING SYSTEMS) ++++ +This section applies to SYSLINUX only, not to PXELINUX or ISOLINUX. + This is the recommended procedure for creating a SYSLINUX disk that can boot either DOS or Linux. This example assumes the drive is A: in DOS and /dev/fd0 in Linux; for other drives, substitute the @@ -546,6 +548,8 @@ that is bootable on the largest possible number of machines: A CD-ROM is so much faster than a floppy that the -s option shouldn't matter from a speed perspective. +Of course, you may want to use ISOLINUX instead. See isolinux.doc. + ++++ BOOTING FROM A FAT FILESYSTEM PARTITION ON A HARD DISK ++++