Messages in this thread | | | From | Marco Colombo <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS |
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On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote: > > > > > You can pivot_root after the bios hands control over to the kernel, sure. > > But if the bios can actually boot from arbitrary blocks on the CD before the > > kernel takes over, this is news to me. And for the kernel to read from the > > CD, it needs its drivers already loaded for it, so they have to be in that > > 2.88 megs somewhere. (Statically linked, ramdisk, etc.) > > > > > No, the boot specification allows direct access to the CD. See the El > Torito specification, specifically the parts that talk about "no > emulation" mode.
Is this the -hard-disk-boot option of mkisofs?
.TM.
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