Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 03 Feb 2002 14:24:55 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS |
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Rob Landley wrote:
> > And el-torito bootable CDs basically glue a floppy image onto the front of > the CD and lie to the bios to say "oh yeah, I'm a floppy, boot from me". > Luckily, they can use the old 2.88 "extended density" floppy standard IBM > tried to launch years ago which never got anywhere, but which most BIOS's > recognize. But that's still a fairly small place to try to stick a whole > system... >
They can be; they can also run in a mode where they can access arbitrary blocks on the CD (ISOLINUX runs in this mode.)
-hpa
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