Subject: Re: Adding cd9660 support to the i386/amd64 BIOS bootloader
To: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@NetBSD.org>
From: John Clark <jclark@metricsystems.com>
List: tech-install
Date: 06/21/2005 10:10:52
Bang Jun-Young wrote:

>Martin Husemann wrote:
>  
>
>>On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:06:07AM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
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>>
>>>ISO-9660 defines the default block size 2048 bytes for all platforms that
>>>supports it.
>>>      
>>>
>>I think what Simon means is: Sun (and some DEC CD drives) have physical
>>blocksizes of 512 byte, emulated by the drives firmware.
>>    
>>
>
>Even if it is, we still have nothing to lose, because there's no platform
>that have cd9660 support in their bootloaders. When it becomes a real
>problem, we can easily fix it.
>


Uh? The El Torito spec uses the ISO9660 format. BIOS's for i386 
platforms have been using this
since 1995, or how do you think a PC boots off of a CD at all?