Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 01:22:42 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support Message-ID: <3EB5A0C2.30401@mukappabeta.de> In-Reply-To: <3EB57436.CB158B14@mindspring.com> References: <20030504020700.B3CCA37B401@hub.freebsd.org> <20030504044927.GA13584@pit.databus.com> <3EB55F29.9080706@acm.org> <3EB57436.CB158B14@mindspring.com>
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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. -- Matthias Buelow home: mkb/at/mukappabeta.de uni: mkb/at/informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
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