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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 10:53:54 +0100 (CET)
From: Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
cc: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] x86 ELF bootable kernels/Linux booting Linux/LinuxBIOS
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On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Rob Landley wrote:
> 
> > 
> > You can pivot_root after the bios hands control over to the kernel, sure.  
> > But if the bios can actually boot from arbitrary blocks on the CD before the 
> > kernel takes over, this is news to me.  And for the kernel to read from the 
> > CD, it needs its drivers already loaded for it, so they have to be in that 
> > 2.88 megs somewhere.  (Statically linked, ramdisk, etc.)
> > 
> 
> 
> No, the boot specification allows direct access to the CD.  See the El 
> Torito specification, specifically the parts that talk about "no 
> emulation" mode.

Is this the -hard-disk-boot option of mkisofs?

.TM.

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