CD burning software
Michael Smith
operalover_99 at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 3 13:31:37 UTC 2003
Chris,
--- Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> SYSLINUX doesn't know how to read from CDs.
> ISOLINUX is different; it
> does not use a bootable floppy image, however it
> still uses the El
> Torito extensions (it doesn't know how to read from
> the CD itself).
>
> El Torito specifies several BIOS extensions for
> booting from CD; the
> most commonly used (and most commonly supported) is
> to put the image of
> a bootable floppy and have the El Torito extension
> read it and emulate a
> floppy drive. Some computers that support El Torito
> extensions only
> support booting from a floppy image.
>
I've always wondered why some computers will not boot
from a bootable install disk, while others will boot
from the same disk.
Thanks for the explanation.
Mike Smith
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