Re: Little-known features of El Torito Spec

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:39:43 +0100

dan@shearer.org said:
> So what does El Torito let us do?
> 1. You can have multiple boot images
> 2. You can have no-emulation booting.

You can also have hard drive images, which have no restriction on size.

If you then dig out and fix the int 13h (BIOS disk) driver which back in the
1.0.x days used to allow you to use the BIOS routines from Linux, then you
could just use that hard drive image all the way through the installation.

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