Re: CD booting question
>From rob23@tmr.com Mon Dec 29 21:32:18 2003
>I have been creating bootable (el torrito style) CDs since the
>capability was added to mkisofs ages ago. However, from time to time I
>find a system which doesn't know how to boot CD and must boot from
>floppy. With programs like Linux boot disks that's not a problem, one is
>included. My question is, has anyone ever written a dumb boot CD from
>floppy program which will just find the CD, locate the el torrito boot
>pointer, read in the data and jump to it?
>In other words, I'd like a general floppy to do what the BIOS would do
>if it wasn't limited.
>I'm asking here because there are a lot of people who are making and
>burning CDs here, and someone may have stumbled on what I'd like.
Have a look at the russion site from the person who did the DOS port
for cdrtools (see one of the last announce files).
Jörg
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