Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS

H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-03T22:26:02Z

Rob Landley wrote:

>
> And el-torito bootable CDs basically glue a floppy image onto the front of
> the CD and lie to the bios to say "oh yeah, I'm a floppy, boot from me".
> Luckily, they can use the old 2.88 "extended density" floppy standard IBM
> tried to launch years ago which never got anywhere, but which most BIOS's
> recognize. But that's still a fairly small place to try to stick a whole
> system...
>

They can be; they can also run in a mode where they can access arbitrary
blocks on the CD (ISOLINUX runs in this mode.)

-hpa