Wednesday, November 21, 2007

How-To Create Bootable CD-ROMs: The El Torito Bootable CD-ROM Format

A PC can boot from a CD-ROM if the BIOS supports the El Torito Bootable CD-ROM Format Specification v1.0. The El Torito specification was created in January 1995, by Curtus E. Stevens of Phoenix and Stan Merkin of IBM. It was named after a restaurant, the "El Torito Grill", where they would go to eat and talk about bootable CD-ROMs.

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