Subject: Re: Adding cd9660 support to the i386/amd64 BIOS bootloader
To: John Clark <jclark@metricsystems.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-install
Date: 06/22/2005 09:53:42
On Jun 21, 2005, at 10:10 AM, John Clark wrote:
> 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?
El Torito uses floppy / hard disk emulation. This is native CD
booting that does not require a separate floppy or hard disk image to
reside on the CD-ROM.
-- thorpej