Boot from CD ROM
25-May-93 08:23:47
Sb: #49082-Boot from CD ROM
Fm: David Dillard [MDI] 70414,1652
To: Daniel K Durick 71053,3513
To boot from either CD-ROM or WORM would take major reworking of the BIOS code
of an adapter.
"FORMAT C: /S" won't make a WORM bootable. When writing to a WORM cartridge
the device driver is told to write data to sectors which have been previously
written. The device driver can't do this because of the nature of WORM media.
Therefore it writes the data to new (unwritten) sector and keeps track of where
the latest data is. To be able to boot from such a system, all of this code
would have to be incorporated into the adapter's BIOS.
David