Difference between revisions of "CD to boot both Mac and PC"

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Preliminary research suggests it may be possible to boot both Mac and x86 hardware from the same CD. It seems that the boot sector for the El Torito boot disk specification used by most PCs is different from the boot sector used by the Mac.
 
Preliminary research suggests it may be possible to boot both Mac and x86 hardware from the same CD. It seems that the boot sector for the El Torito boot disk specification used by most PCs is different from the boot sector used by the Mac.
  
[http://kb.iu.edu/data/ancc.html?cust=697760.93026.30| What is the El Torito CD-ROM specification?]
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*[http://kb.iu.edu/data/ancc.html?cust=697760.93026.30| What is the El Torito CD-ROM specification?]
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*[http://www.macdisk.com/hybbooten.php3| Bootable hybrid (ISO/HFS) CD-ROMs]

Revision as of 00:32, 19 May 2005

Preliminary research suggests it may be possible to boot both Mac and x86 hardware from the same CD. It seems that the boot sector for the El Torito boot disk specification used by most PCs is different from the boot sector used by the Mac.