James Courtier-Dutton wrote:> I know that some BIOSes can boot from CD, and some cannot.
> I was wondering if it would be possible to create a single Boot floppy
> that would cause the CD to boot just as if the BIOS had tried to boot it.
> So, for example, I have a Bootable CD. I put it in a computer and it
> boots fine.
> I then take that same Bootable CD to another computer, but it fails to
> boot because the BIOS does not support booting from CD. I would like to
> have a single floppy disk that I could put in this computer to cause the
> computer to boot from the CD.
>
> So, in summary, a boot floppy that would add El Torito support to any BIOS.
>
> Can any of the SYSLINUX etc. tools provide this.
>
No. Writing such a floppy would be possible, at least as long as you
only worry about ATAPI CD-ROMs (otherwise you need drivers for each.)
-hpa