Re: A couple of things I noticed
> 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.=20
Does Sun/sparc use the El Torito standard to boot from a CD? I thought Sun
were able to boot from CD long before El Torito was created?
(the silo documentation should contain information about this)
Rainer
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