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Does any other booting system exist for ISO 9660, except El Torito?

17th sector of ISO 9660 file system may contain so called Boot Record. It is a special Volume Descriptor with type = 0x00. The only Boot Record I know is Boot Record for El Torito and it contains LBA ...
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GRUB 0.97: vga=xxx not working with EL TORITO boot image

Currently I'm programming an operating system. Therfore I'm using GRUB 0.97 (legacy) as the bootloader... As standard it puts out a 80x25 text mode. Of course I want a higher resolution... I've ...
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Is there some universal way of booting up an ISO image without burning it to a DVD/CD?

Most of the tools out there that "burn bootable ISO to USB" rely on specific OS information. Is there some universal way to boot up El Torito bootable ISO without burning it to DVD or CD (and instead ...
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How can I see the hidden data of a bootable CD/DVD media?

I have this bootable DVD that holds a recovery program. When I insert the disc in Windows I can only read the label of the disc. When I try to explore the contents I don't see anything. But when I ...
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