David Young wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:49:17AM -0400, Ty Sarna wrote:
> > Now, I think it would be a great thing to improve the cdrom boot process
> > and stop using floppy emulation for that, but I think floppy install
> > needs to stay a first class citizen for a while longer. 
> 
> I have never booted a PC with a CD-ROM that did *not* use floppy
> emulation.  For how long have PC BIOS's supported the new methods?
> Can somebody produce "new-style" bootable CD-ROMs for NetBSD users
> to test?  Until then, I do not feel certain that I can boot a quarter
> of the PCs at my disposal using a "new-style" CD boot method.

Windows doesn't use floppy emulation for installation from CD. I can't
imagine a BIOS without support for the native CD-ROM boot.

Jun-Young