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authorhpa <hpa>2001-04-19 00:58:32 +0000
committerhpa <hpa>2001-04-19 00:58:32 +0000
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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.
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@@ -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 ++++