Re: [Etherboot-developers] What about an "eb-xxx.iso" image type?

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>>>...simply because a lot of BIOSes doesn't accept value different from 4 (=
>>>4 blocks are 2Kb...)
>> 
>> What the mkisofs man page says is that some BIOSes require it to be a
>> multiple of 4. 2kB is the size of a CD block.
>
>Yes, but some BIOSes require it to be *exactly* 4, because that's what 
>'doze uses.

Well I did the lazy bit; the invitation is still open for someone to
write a shell script to handle the legacy and difficult BIOSes,
generating a say .liso image.  It would be called like this from the
Makefile

	genliso blahblah.zlilo blahblah.liso

It would create a 1.44 MB floppy image, generate the necessary syslinux
config files, write the "kernel" and config files to the "floppy" and
call syslinux to make the image bootable, then call mkisofs to create
the .liso image.

Or maybe the syntax should be reversed

	genliso foo-bar.liso foo.zlilo bar.zlilo

and the menu would allow either foo or bar to be booted.

If you really want to be elaborate you could read a template
syslinux.cfg file to allow syslinux behaviour to be controlled.