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document updated 14 years ago, on Aug 22, 2009
Boooting into a CD-ROM drive requires BIOS support. But what if your BIOS is too old?
There are three magic bootloaders that can help you:
Smart Boot Manager
PLoP Bootmanager
various kexec-based bootloaders (all Linux-only, but they can be nonetheless handy)
kexec-loader
kboot