RE: [ros-kernel]CDROM bootsector

[Kohn E. D. <em...@cs...>]

Searching with Google for:

bootable CD-ROM specification

revealed this:

"El Torito" Bootable CD-ROM Format Specification"

http://www.phoenix.com/PlatSS/PDFs/specs-cdrom.pdf



On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Brian Palmer wrote:

> I was under the impression that bootable cdrom's used some kind of
> emulation mode to emulate a floppy drive. In that case the regular FAT12
> boot sector should work because you supply a floppy disk image on the
> bootable cdrom. Is there someplace where I can get more information
> about this?
>
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rea...@li...
> [mailto:rea...@li...] On Behalf Of Eric
> Kohl
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 8:24 AM
> To: ReactOS-Kernel
> Subject: [ros-kernel]CDROM bootsector
>
> Hi!
>
> Last weekend I played a little with 'Isolinux' (ISO9660 boot code for
> linux)
> from the 'Syslinux' package. I thought about removing the parts that are
> not
> needed to load and run FreeLdr.sys. Today I found the announcement of
> 'Boot
> Scriptor' (proprietary license) on Freshmeat (www.freshmeat.net) which
> uses
> a stripped Isolinux (GPL'd). I guess this is exactly what we need to
> boot
> FreeLoader from cdrom.
>
>
> Eric
>
>
>
>
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