> > Although it seems impossible to partitionize and boot from CD because
> > of the different sector size (2048 instead of 512 bytes), I'd like to
> > notify you guys of the possibility to create a bootable CD on the PC.
>
> In Nero Burning Rom 5 when one want to create a bootable cd, one can
select
> the source of the boot image. The choices are: a less than 640MB drive (in
> my case also a bert-formatted 32MB ZIP partition can be selected) or an
> image. By 'expert settings' can be chosen if you want 'floppy-disk
emulation
> (1.20), floppy-disk emulation (1.44), floppy-disk emulation (2.88),
harddisk
> emulation or no emulation. Also 'load segment of sectors (must be hex
> value)' and the number of loaded sectors can be modified.
I wouldn't know about those since I've never used them.
> I can also change 'file options', some of these sound like chinese to me:
> The characterset can be chosen as 'ISO9660', 'DOS', and 'ASCII', (what the
> hell is meant by 'characterset');
The characterset used for the filenames. ISO9660 is like MSX: 8 characters
filename, three characters extension, capitals only and no spaces. I don't
know exactly the difference of DOS. ASCII means that you can use capitals as
well as lowercase characters, and you can also use spaces. And if I remember
correctly also 31 characters for the entire filename (oh no, wait, that was
Joliet).
> and the 'format' can be set into 'mode 1'
> or 'mode 2/XA'
Mode 2/XA is newer, has more possibilities like videoCD, multisession CD's,
etc (correct m if I'm wrong).
> Can anyone give me a clue to what settings i should use, or should i just
> try them all? I am doubting between 'use ZIP-disk as source image' or 'use
> (own made) image' and 'no emulation' or 'harddisk emulation' and about
the
> file options, i really don't know.
Own made image seems best to me.
Use an image of a (bootable) MSX partition.
However, I can tall you in advance it won't work until the BIOS is adapted
to boot from CD's. For the IDE interface and MegaSCSI this is quite possible
(they use SRAM or FlashROM for the BIOS), but I don't think the Bert has
support for this, and even if the BIOS for it was still in development, they
use an EPROM for it which can't be reprogrammed by software.
~Grauw
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