Re: Booting El Torito: LIL

What I meant was, maybe the DOS loader stops using the BIOS to read
with before it gets to the part the BIOS can't handle, while LILO
uses the BIOS throughout.  But I really doubt it.  It is more likely
that the BIOS has some virus protection that is broken or something.

 -Tom

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Robert de Bath wrote:

> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:59:00 +0100 (BST)
> From: Robert de Bath <[email protected]>
> To: Tom Oehser <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mogens Kjaer <[email protected]>, Toms panic disk <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] Booting El Torito: LIL
>
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Tom Oehser wrote:
>
> >
> > 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
>
> Ahhh, all boot loaders take over before that, the BIOS only loads the
> very first sector on the disk. Lilo's requirements on the BIOS are
> _very_ simple if (like tomsrtbt) you don't use 'linear' or 'compact'
> as the boot sector is little more than a tiny program that goes through
> a table of CHS sets and loads one sector from each.
>
> --
> Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
>                                        <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
>
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