Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:26:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:25:52 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:21252 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:25:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3C5DB8B7.4030304@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 14:24:55 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Landley CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , "Erik A. Hendriks" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Werner Almesberger Subject: Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS In-Reply-To: <3C5D91EB.4000900@zytor.com> <20020203221750.HMXG18301.femail20.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/