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2015 Oct 30
0
Isohybrid wiki page and UEFI
...single system that is
capable of booting a legacy OS or an EFI-aware OS from the
same disk."
A partition MBR (EBR) is not unusual on PC disks. The topic of
chainloading is associated with them.
UEFI 2,6, 12.3.1 System Partition:
"A System Partition supports backward compatibility with legacyi
systems by reserving the first block (sector) of the partition
for compatibility code."
I interpret "reserving" as "not interpreting", which matches the
expressed goal of compatibility.
Not storing own stuff at block 0 is a common property of many
filesystems.
> Now...
2015 Oct 30
1
Isohybrid wiki page and UEFI
...ooting a legacy OS or an EFI-aware OS from the
> same disk."
>
> A partition MBR (EBR) is not unusual on PC disks. The topic of
> chainloading is associated with them.
>
> UEFI 2,6, 12.3.1 System Partition:
> "A System Partition supports backward compatibility with legacyi
> systems by reserving the first block (sector) of the partition
> for compatibility code."
>
> I interpret "reserving" as "not interpreting", which matches the
> expressed goal of compatibility.
> Not storing own stuff at block 0 is a common property o...
2015 Oct 30
2
Isohybrid wiki page and UEFI
> Hello,
>
> Ady via Syslinux said on Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 08:15:37PM +0200:
> >_ Creating filesystem that _does_ conform to ISO-9660;
>
> I think the only issue is with a tag. That same image boots with grub
> 0.99
I understand. My point is, in theory, "everything" is frequently
expected to work as it was designed; in practice, it is not. So my
suggestions