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author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2008-09-05 15:07:35 -0700 |
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committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2008-09-05 15:07:35 -0700 |
commit | 669c4e56aa4e672cd651b316075440a9f639be7e (patch) | |
tree | cb8e75cb5e73d03673987491a64d3d9ce14bebe0 /doc | |
parent | ae73971d97f9fe3cc49f690e44962f32bd8eea37 (diff) | |
download | syslinux-669c4e56aa4e672cd651b316075440a9f639be7e.tar.gz |
ISOLINUX: document hybrid modesyslinux-3.72-pre2
Document ISOLINUX hybrid mode.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/isolinux.txt b/doc/isolinux.txt index 95d24a3d..dd8bca5a 100644 --- a/doc/isolinux.txt +++ b/doc/isolinux.txt @@ -65,9 +65,8 @@ not be a problem. ISOLINUX is by default built in two versions, one version with extra debugging messages enabled. If you are having problems with ISOLINUX, I would greatly appreciate if you could try out the debugging version -(isolinux-debug.bin) and let me know what it reports. - -YOU MAY WANT TO CONSIDER USING THE DEBUGGING VERSION BY DEFAULT. +(isolinux-debug.bin) and let me know what it reports. The debugging +version does not include hybrid mode support (see below.) ++++ NOTE ON THE CONFIG FILE DIRECTORY ++++ @@ -78,6 +77,26 @@ used, even if it contains no files. Therefore, please make sure that these directories don't exist if you don't want ISOLINUX to use them. + ++++ HYBRID CD-ROM/HARD DISK MODE ++++ + +Starting in version 3.72, ISOLINUX supports a "hybrid mode" which can +be booted from either CD-ROM or from a device which BIOS considers a +hard disk or ZIP disk, e.g. a USB key or similar. + +To enable this mode, the .iso image should be postprocessed with the +"isohybrid" script from the utils directory: + + isohybrid filename.iso + +This script creates the necessary additional information to be able to +boot in hybrid mode. It also pads out the image to an even multiple +of 1 MB. + +This image can then be copied using any raw disk writing tool (on Unix +systems, typically "dd" or "cat") to a USB disk, or written to a +CD-ROM using standard CD burning tools. + + ++++ BOOTING DOS (OR OTHER SIMILAR OPERATING SYSTEMS) ++++ WARNING: This feature depends on BIOS functionality which is |