Re: [Leaf-devel] bering CD syslinux-style?

[K.-P. <ka...@ep...>]

Am Dienstag 07 Mai 2002 20:51 schrieb Jacques Nilo:
> Le Mardi 7 Mai 2002 17:50, K.-P. Kirchd=F6rfer a =E9crit :
> > A question to the Bering crew about required files on bootdisk.img...=
=2E
> >
> > Building a CD with isolinux fails, more correctly it fails to boot, w=
hich
> > I believe is due to the bios of my router hardware (IBM PC 330).
> >
> > It works with syslinux and the usual bootdisk.img on the CD. Now flop=
py
> > space is always a problem, especially if I want to use a newer glibc
> > version. So I checked which files are required to boot and load lrp's
> > from the CD. I found that the kernel, ldlinux, syslinux.* and initrd.=
lrp
> > are the only one's. In opposite to Dachstein root.lrp is not needed o=
n
> > the bootdisk.img.
> >
> > Can the Bering crew confirm this?
>
> I can definitively confirm that. I

Good - this will make it easy to build a CD in the old-fashioned style wi=
th=20
syslinux, which will work on every PC with cdrom-boot-capability regardle=
ss=20
how defect the bios is. And more: Bering could be enhanced to use=20
glibc.whatever in every CD-based version (isolinux and syslinux).

> In fact this is implicitly explined in the "one floppy setup":
> http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bubooting.html#AEN947

True. Guess you couldn't better hide that issue than in "8.2 The single f=
loppy=20
drive setup" :)))

kp