Re: Booting El Torito: LIL
Tom Oehser <[email protected]>
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Or, maybe the dos loader takes over before it gets past the first 18 sectors, and it just doesn't matter for the dos loader that the bios is broken. -Tom On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Robert de Bath wrote: > Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 17:03:51 +0100 (BST) > From: Robert de Bath <[email protected]> > To: Mogens Kjaer <[email protected]> > Cc: Tom Oehser <[email protected]>, Toms panic disk <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] Booting El Torito: LIL > > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > > > Any suggestions to what I've done wrong? > You found it, > > > To me, it looks like a lilo problem. If the DOS loader can > > load from a 2.88Mb image on CD, so should lilo. They both > > should access the CD through BIOS floppy calls. > > Yes, but it appears that the BIOS doesn't translate CHS for 2.88 images > to the linear for the CD image correctly if the image doesn't contain > a DOS filesystem. > > -- > Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>) > <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday> > >