Re: Booting El Torito image from a partition table

[Andrei Borzenkov]

28.11.2015 21:16, Emilio Lazo Zaia пишет:
> 
> On 28/11/15 13:31, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>> 28.11.2015 19:55, Emilio Lazo Zaia пишет:
>>> Of course isohdppx.bin code and isohybrid binary are ISOLINUX specific,
>>> so we can't combine
>>> them with GRUB2. The problem here seems to be that GRUB2 boot_hybrid.img
>>> don't pass
>>> partition information to core.img because it wasn't designed to handle
>>> partitioned devices. Right?
>>>
>> The problem is that boot_hybrid.img does not know about partition
>> information that is passed to it by syslinux using method specific to
>> syslinux.
>>
> The only syslinux code in my example is mbr.bin that is a generic MBR
> binary code to boot from the
> first partition which has the bootable flag. In those steps we can avoid
> writing syslinux's mbr.bin into
> /dev/loop0 and using install-mbr binary, which isn't related to syslinux
> and provides the same
> functionality, coded in a different way.
> 

How MBR is related to your case? Quoting your first mail: "using
chain.c32 module I can chainload into another partition's boot sector"

If you look at chain code, it passes the same information using the same
method (partition entry pointed to by %SI register).

> isolinux hybrid -partok- images (like SLAX, Debian, ...) works if MBR
> code is the one provided by syslinux (mbr.bin)
> but also if the MBR code on the disk is installed by 'install-mbr'.