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On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:49:04PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:

> 5.x uses an entirely different mechanism to make the CD bootable.  The
> mechanism used in 4.x is similar to what Microsoft used for the Windows
> 95/98 CD's (Emulated El-Torito), while 5.x uses a similar mechanism as
> Windows 2000/XP (Non-Emulated El-Torito).  Since Microsoft only requires
> support for the second method in order to award the MS logo, I suspect
> that support for the first method is starting to die out in mainstream
> BIOSes.

Perhaps this should be documented somewhere.

Kris

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