DOS ain't dead

No Audio CD with El Torito (Users)

posted by KormaX, 15.12.2021, 19:09

Okay, that's interesting. I realized my motherboard installs eltorito services without booting the disk. Instead, if the firmware finds boot information on the disk in the drive when checking the disks during startup, it enables BIOS services to it. I boot my HDD regularly, but the optical drive is accessible through ELTORITO.SYS just because it contained a bootable disk when I have powered up the computer. With this method, the sizes are (or at least seem to be yet) irrelevant. I don't know whether it is a typical behaviour or not.

---
DOS isn't about why. It's about why not.

Complete thread:

• No Audio CD with El Torito - KormaX, 25.11.2021, 14:18 (Users)
  • No Audio CD with El Torito - mceric, 25.11.2021, 22:27
    • No Audio CD with El Torito - KormaX, 26.11.2021, 10:24
    • No Audio CD with El Torito - KormaX, 15.12.2021, 19:09