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>
>
>

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