About:
Syslinux is a collection of boot loaders for Linux and other operating systems which operates on Linux ext2/ext3 filesystems, MS-DOS FAT filesystems, network servers using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs. Syslinux has an advanced extension API and contains two optional menu systems. It also includes MEMDISK, a tool for booting legacy operating systems from non-traditional media like PXE or CD-ROM.

Author:
H. Peter Anvin [contact developer]

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8.23/10.00 (18 votes)

Homepage:
http://syslinux.zytor.com/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/[..]utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.72.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/[..]tils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.72.tar.bz2
Zip:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/[..]ux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.72.zip
Changelog:
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Changelog
RPM package:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/RPMS/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=summary
Mailing list archive:
http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux
Mirror site:
http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		Assembly
[Topic]		System :: Boot

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Release	3.72	26-Sep-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Test	3.30-pre7	15-Sep-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] Yay for isolinux hybrid mode!
by Howard Chu - Sep 30th 2008 01:09:11

Last month as I was running isotostick to copy an Ubuntu 8.04 image to my USB stick, I was thinking to myself "why do we have to mount the ISO image and do file-based copies? Why can't the hard drive bootsector read a CDROM image directly?" And lo and behold, now it can. Thanks for that!

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[»] Feature request, if possible
by T Iuri - Nov 2nd 2005 06:30:35

I've managed to get isolinux/memdisk working. I made up my own boot cd with different images.. My question is: can you make memdisk boot ISO images? I know this sounds kind of rendunant, but I need to boot linux, msdos(ancient :), but still needed) & maybe geexbox(http://geexbox.org), which is provided as ISO image, and I wouldn't want to break it down... Can you help me?

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[»] A very good program for multi booting
by Veerakumar - May 19th 2005 18:51:44

A very good program for multi booting. I use it boot linux, windows. I also made cdrom with multiple boot images. It works just fine.

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