On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:30:16PM +0100, Michael Schierl wrote:
- create a bootable floppy image and use that one as an "emulation boot
image". The BIOS will copy it to RAM, emulate a floppy there and boot from it. On that floppy there should be a bootloader that can boot Linux from a CD. This works for any OS that can be booted from a floppy and needs access to a CD, so it is the more traditional way. See mkisofs for options how to build an iso with an emulation boot image. 2) Use a special bootloader for CDs, as a so called "no-emulation boot image". (you don't understand the name if you do not know what option 1 is about...) The BIOS will copy the image into RAM verbatim and execute it. Mkisofs can do that as well, but you have to check the bootloader documentation for the offset (the position in RAM) where the image should be loaded to.
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thanks, michael, that was very useful at least for me - and i think for several others on the list, as well. you gave a good overview and references for further investigating. i think that should be sufficient.
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