Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel | Date | 6 Jun 1999 04:17:31 GMT |
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Followup to: <19990604105447.39121@lahmed.Stanford.EDU> By author: David Hinds <dhinds@lahmed.Stanford.EDU> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 01:44:55AM +0100, Riley Williams wrote: > > Hi David. > > > > Since you appear to at least be willing to discuss the subject, > > perhaps you can answer the question I've asked a number of times > > regarding this, that nobody appears to be willing to answer: > > > > Q> What is so magical about having the CD's boot image being > > Q> a 1440k image when the standard specifies that the boot > > Q> image can also be 2880k in size? > > > > I can confirm that I've checked this out with both the systems I have > > access to that can boot off their CD drives, by burning a CD with a > > 2880k boot image and seeing if they can boot off it. Both booted fine. > > I don't know much about it: only what other people have posted on this > thread. It sounds to me like this should work fine... so in fact, one > work-around for the problem would be for RH, or whoever, to just make > the bootable image on their CD's bigger, rather than simply having it > be one of their 1.44M floppy images. >
Yes, the standard also specifies that hard disk images can be used. HOWEVER, I can personally testify (from writing SYSLINUX) that El Torito BIOS support is often *very* buggy. Fortunately, it's getting better, presumably as the code has matured.
-hpa -- "The user's computer downloads the ActiveX code and simulates a 'Blue Screen' crash, a generally benign event most users are familiar with and that would not necessarily arouse suspicions." -- Security exploit description on http://www.zks.net/p3/how.asp
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