Subject: Re: Adding cd9660 support to the i386/amd64 BIOS bootloader
To: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-install
Date: 06/22/2005 01:35:25
Bang Jun-Young wrote:

> Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:06:07AM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> > > 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.

I'm not sure I understand.  The pmax first and second stage loaders can
load a kernel of a cd9660 filesystem - this was added around late '99.
Is this what you mean?

Simon.
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