Back to DR-DOS again

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sun Jul 15 17:03:08 UTC 2012


| From: sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org

| I imagine it must have been stored on a rom chip somewhere on the MB, 
| but where? In the BIOS?

Did you have a CDROM in the drive?  El-Torito booting can optionally
fake a floppy for booting.

DOS isn't too good at large disks.  Or cdroms.  There are variouis
work-arounds.
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