June 23, 2010

T13/2132-D Revision 3

7 CD/DVD Boot

7.1 Overview

CD and DVD media shall be bootable if the media follows the formatting described here. This format is based on ISO-9660, but does not require the media to be ISO-9660 compliant. Boot media shall have an ISO-9660 Boot Volume Descriptor (BVD) at sector 17 relative to the start of the last session on the CD or DVD media. See clause 7.2.1 for a description of the BVD. Other ISO-9660 constructs, such as the "Primary Volume Descriptor" and the "Set Terminator" are not required for compliance to EDD, but are required if the CD or DVD contains material that can be accessed by ISO-9660 compliant drivers. Figure 4 shows a standard ISO-9660 image overview.

System Area

(Unused)

Sector 16

Volume Descriptors

Area 1

(Could be files)

Area 2

(Could be music)

Unused

Figure 4 — ISO 9660 CD Layout

Working Draft Enhanced Disk Drive - 4 (EDD-4)

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Western Digital T13/2132-D manual CD/DVD Boot Overview, ISO 9660 CD Layout Working Draft Enhanced Disk Drive 4 EDD-4