The boot-directdisk
class
creates an image that can be placed directly onto a hard disk using
dd
and then booted.
The image uses SYSLINUX.
The end result is a 512 boot sector populated with a
Master Boot Record (MBR) and partition table followed by an MSDOS
FAT16 partition containing SYSLINUX and a Linux kernel completed by
the ext2
and ext3
root filesystems.