Subject: Re: Enabling LFS in sysinst (and moving lfs_cleanerd)
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <Wolfgang@Solfrank.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/31/2006 22:42:00
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:53:35AM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>> That would be my preference, too.  See "insist" in my original  
>> statement :-)  I think our continued reliance on El Torito is nothing  
>> more than stubbornness.
> 
> Just for the archive -- El Torito is the mechanism to get bootable CDs
> (at least) on i386. It provides both emulated and non-emulated boot. So
> we will continue to depend on it :-)

Seconded.  I was wondering for quite a while what this bashing of El Torito was
about.  If it weren't for El Torito, there would be _no_ way to boot a(n i386
based) PC from a CD.

Ciao,
Wolfgang
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Wolfgang@Solfrank.net				Wolfgang Solfrank