[LinuxBIOS] Filo boot from CD-Rom syntax
roger
roger at eskimo.com
Tue Jan 30 22:52:33 CET 2007
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 19:32 +0900, Takeshi Sone wrote:
> No, this is not a bug.
>
> > "hdx" refers to the entire device "x"
> > "hdx1" refers to the first primary partition of "x"
> > "hdx2" refers to the second primary partition of "x"
>
> "hdb" refers to the entire CD-ROM.
> "hdb1" refers to the "boot disk image" in the CD-ROM.
>
> "Boot disk image" is something like 1.44MB floppy disk image, as
> specified in El Torito.
>
> However, recent distributions don't use the disk image. They use
> the entire CD-ROM instead, thanks to isolinux.
> So you can use "hdb" to boot them.
>
> Sorry for the confusion.
> My English was (is) bad, so the README should be re-written anyway
> to clarify things.
What you just wrote, sounds excellent to me.
(Is it more proper to post Filo related material to the openbios.org
mailing list. If so, I have done so.)
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Roger
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Tue Jan 30 13:48:33 PST 2007
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