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Date:      Thu, 11 Jul 1996 09:38:45 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: bootable CD's (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199607110738.JAA14451@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199607102112.OAA27270@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jul 10, 96 02:12:26 pm"

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> Conforming boot code will read the first sector from the first
> *session* of a multisession CD, rather than the first sector from
> the CD itself.

The first track (of the first session), i assume... but that's not
surprising at all, since this *is* the first bytes you can read off a
CD-ROM.  Everything else (before this) is CD metadata, which is
neither CD-ROM nor CD-DA, but is required to provide lead-in frames
etc.

I didn't expect them to declare the last CD-DA track being the one
you're going to boot from. :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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