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El Torito
Last modified: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 

A bootable CD-ROM format specification that allows a computer to boot from a CD-ROM. El Torito was proposed by IBM and Phoenix Technologies. It is an extension to the ISO 9660 CD-ROM specification.
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CD-ROMs

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BIOS

boot

boot disk

CD-ROM

floppy

floppy disk

IBM

Phoenix BIOS

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Phoenix Technologies
Home page of Phoenix Technologies, makers of Phoenix BIOS. There are links to their latest press releases, product information, and technical support and library.

El Torito Specification - January 1995 (PDF)
This specification defines how makers of CD-ROMs can package several "images" of floppy and hard disks on a single CD with the ability to catalog these images and to selectively boot from any single image.

Overview: The ISO 9660 File System
This article describes the ISO 9660 file system format used on compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM). CD-ROMs have become so popular (and cheap) that its market share grew exponential over the last years.







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