Re: 4.9 is now available
From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 10/30/03
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:58:50 -0800 To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:49:04PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> 5.x uses an entirely different mechanism to make the CD bootable. The
> mechanism used in 4.x is similar to what Microsoft used for the Windows
> 95/98 CD's (Emulated El-Torito), while 5.x uses a similar mechanism as
> Windows 2000/XP (Non-Emulated El-Torito). Since Microsoft only requires
> support for the second method in order to award the MS logo, I suspect
> that support for the first method is starting to die out in mainstream
> BIOSes.
Perhaps this should be documented somewhere.
Kris
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