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Re: Is it possible to boot Syslinux com32 module from grub2 ?


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: Is it possible to boot Syslinux com32 module from grub2 ?
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:54:07 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:00:51PM +0530, J.Bakshi wrote:
> 
> Rather than porting, I like to boot it from grub but it is a syslinux
> module and I don't know if it works at all. Can I use the chainloader
> to boot syslinux and let it do the rest of the thing ?

Why don't you port it to Multiboot instead?  Multiboot is very simple to
generate, since it doesn't impose any object format (generally, ELF is
used).

Check docs/kernel.c in GRUB Legacy for an example.

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