>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen)
>James Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stated:
>> Doesn't have to be a file in the ISO9660 directory tree - when a PC boots
>> from an El Torito CD, it knows nothing about the ISO9660 file system, all
>> it basically needs is a block address on the CD ...
>>
>> You can even create such a CD with mkisofs - by hiding the boot catalog
>> and boot image files.
> See the documentation of mkisofs and the -b option. It certainly says
>it must be a file, which I guess you could hide if you have reason to do
>so. Other than game CDs and other attempts at copy protection, I don't
>see much joy to doing so, but technically you could do so.
>From the Eltorito standard, there is absolutely no relation between the boot
image and the ISO-9660 filesystem. There is no need to even have the sectors
that carry the boot information should be "inside" the space where the ISO-9660
image is located. The only connection fro, Eltorito to ISO-9660 is that it
uses a ISO-9660 volume drecriptor as a root anchor for the pointer path
to the boot blocks.
Jörg
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