Talk:El Torito (CD-ROM standard)

"If you need to boot from a CD on an old PC without an El Torito-capable BIOS you can try Smart Boot Manager..." Doesn't this only apply to PCs with an IDE CD drive. I don't think SBM helps if it's a SCSI CD drive. -- Ralph Corderoy 13:39, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I believe Old SCSI drives have firmware that can bypass PC BIOS altogether- although I forget how this applies to IBM PC boot operation. Cuvtixo (talk) 17:43, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

not really, every thing is BIOS dependant —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.115.212.176 (talk) 06:16, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Booting OS

"Newer operating systems do not require emulation to boot; all that is needed is an appropriate boot loader such as ISOLINUX." - This is not true per se: the BIOS loads the boot sector, which in turn must load the OS, for which it must use BIOS calls (it's not possible to drive the hardware directly, since the boot sector may only contain 510 bytes of code). So if you regard the boot stuff part of the OS, no OS can boot without emulation (the BIOS does not provide CD-ROM extensions). Jalwikip (talk) 09:24, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Needs updating for 64-bit chips

I would like to know if the El Torito standard applies for 64-bit chip computers including x86-64 processor chips. I know old BIOS can be simulated in the EFI standard, but that's about as far as my understanding goes. Cuvtixo (talk) 17:34, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

First link, to the spec is broken

-nt- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.91.70.120 (talk) 15:03, 16 July 2010 (UTC)