Re: Little-known features of El Torito Spec
allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
Sat, 28 Aug 1999 10:31:04 -0400 (EDT)
On 29 Aug, dan@shearer.org wrote:
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| > dan@shearer.org said:
| > > So what does El Torito let us do?
| > > 1. You can have multiple boot images
| > > 2. You can have no-emulation booting.
| >
| > You can also have hard drive images, which have no restriction on size.
| >
| > If you then dig out and fix the int 13h (BIOS disk) driver which back in the
| > 1.0.x days used to allow you to use the BIOS routines from Linux, then you
| > could just use that hard drive image all the way through the installation.
|
| So why do all these Linux distributions insist on doing their CD booting
| using steam-driven technology? Think of how neat it could be! Admittedly
+--->8
I seem to recall that someone looked into this and discovered that many
of the El Torito options are in fact unimplemented in most cases, and
therefore useless in practice.
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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering kf8nh
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