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
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