[syslinux] Booting a bootable CD-ROM

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Mar 23 11:07:40 PDT 2016


On 03/21/16 11:56, Andy Pont via Syslinux wrote:
>   4) Copy that sector to 07C0:0000
>   5) Pass execution to the start of the read sector at 07C0:0000

0000:7C00, unless a nonzero segment is specified in the El Torito
header, in which case it is xxxx:0000.

> I have been reading the BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD)
> specification which defines the interrupt 13h interface in a reasonable
> level of detail and I am wondering whether there needs to be an additional
> step between 2) and 3) above.

You probably should also read the El Torito specification, I think it
has been incorporated in the later versions of the EDD specification but
may be a bit easier.

	-hpa



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