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ISOLINUX is a boot loader for Linux/i386 that operates off ISO 9660/El Torito CD-ROMs in "no emulation" mode, which means that it is able to access the content of the cd-roms directly. Everything in this section is related to ISOLINUX, which can be found on http://syslinux.zytor.com/iso.php.

GRUB vs ISOLINUX for a BOOT CD
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ok, we need to make a boot cd... which boot loader do we put on the CD?

  • ISOLINUX is able to boot from the CD directly, without anything to worry about or anything strange to do.

  • ISOLINUX, however, is quite limited in respect with what it can do once the CD is booted.

  • GRUB is more flexible, and looks nice. Older versions of GRUB had no direct support to boot ISO images. http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~bernhard/grub-chain-cd.html contain useful info. For 0.93, there was a patch available, which can easily be found on google (by searching something like El-Torito grub support).

    Recent versions of GRUB, however, seems to have a very good support (since march 2004, accordingly to the Changelog). There is plenty of documentation in the info manual (info grub).

  • both GRUB and ISOLINUX do support Graphic Splash Screens.

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