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Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ?

From Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com>
Newsgroups alt.os.development
Subject Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ?
Date 2015-06-19 19:22 +0200
Organization albasani.net
Message-ID <20150619192241.62c06637@maxa-pc> (permalink)
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 19:07:59 +0200
"wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> wrote:

> > I haven't tried it but it looks as though you could boot from an 
> > optical-disc *image* using an emulator. For example, Oracle
> > VirtualBox has a boot-from-cd-image option. That would save you
> > burning throuh multiple CDs. :-)
> 
> Not sure yet if this emulation is something I could do myself.

Why? It is emulation of boot from CD so you can test your software
without real boot.

> 
> I can't use anything from third parties inbetween powerup and CD-boot 
> because my clients wont pay me for the work of others.

No, as I understand it is just for testing your boot software.

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BIOS limits on CD boot ? "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-06-19 13:44 +0200
  Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-06-19 14:15 +0100
    Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-06-19 19:07 +0200
      Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-06-19 19:22 +0200
        Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-06-20 08:50 +0200
      Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-06-20 09:07 +0100
        Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-06-20 15:43 +0100
          Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-06-21 06:10 +0200
            Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-06-21 18:13 +0100
              Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-06-22 09:55 +0200
                Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-06-22 12:04 +0100
                Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-06-30 20:03 +0200
                Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-01 11:19 +0100
  Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2015-06-19 10:56 -0700
    Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-06-20 08:55 +0200
  Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-06-19 18:15 -0400
    Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-06-20 09:18 +0200
      Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2015-06-20 07:43 -0700
  Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-06-21 16:04 +0200
    Re: BIOS limits on CD boot ? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-06-22 12:13 +0100

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