Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Aug 1999 09:16:43 +0930 (CST) | From | <> | Subject | Re: Little-known features of El Torito Spec |
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> dan@shearer.org said: > > So what does El Torito let us do? > > 1. You can have multiple boot images > > 2. You can have no-emulation booting. > > You can also have hard drive images, which have no restriction on size. > > If you then dig out and fix the int 13h (BIOS disk) driver which back in the > 1.0.x days used to allow you to use the BIOS routines from Linux, then you > could just use that hard drive image all the way through the installation.
This sounds in effect the same as no-emulation booting where you get access via int 13 as well. The only difference is that different int 13 calls are used thus requiring a thin translation layer in the kernel for no-emulation. I didn't know about the hard drive emulation. Sounds simpler.
So why do all these Linux distributions insist on doing their CD booting using steam-driven technology? Think of how neat it could be! Admittedly it would work on a slightly smaller set of hardware, but it would serve the majority of x86 users.
Dan
PS Thanks for the Cc. I'm not on linux-kernel at present.
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