Re: Floppy Support

From: Matthias Buelow <mkb_at_mukappabeta.de>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 01:22:42 +0200
Terry Lambert wrote:

> You can't do this and do the non-El Torito floppy-on-CDROM
> boot hack, since the BIOS will only fake up a single floppy.

I have very little clue regarding cdrom booting but is the cdrom _only_ 
available as a faked floppy thru the BIOS, or is it just that the BIOS 
simply boots from it (i.e., loading sector 0) and the CDROM is still 
available through the BIOS as a seperate drive?  In the latter case, the 
boot loader could simply use the other drive to load the rest via the 
BIOS.  That's at least what I would consider logical, no doubt BIOS 
manufacturers have messed that up, of course.

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Matthias Buelow
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Received on Sun May 04 2003 - 15:18:36 UTC

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