Previously sparc porters wrote: > Although we are talking about CDROM's, the fact is the format of bootable > CD's must be the same as a floppy. I'm not exactly sure of the technical > reasons for this, but it is my understanding. The bootable-CD standard is kind of weird: what happens is that the BIOS checks for the El Torito extension on a CD, and if it finds that it loads a floppy-image from the CD and uses that to emulate a floppy drive, which is then used to boot the system. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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