Subject: Re: Adding cd9660 support to the i386/amd64 BIOS bootloader
To: John Clark <jclark@metricsystems.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: port-amd64
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