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> > >
