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El Torito suppor is added
From: |
Yoshinori K. Okuji |
Subject: |
El Torito suppor is added |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:15:24 +0100 |
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Hello all,
I have added support for El Torito with no emulation mode into the CVS
right now. The patch is originally written by Leonid Lisovskiy, and I
myself modified his patch and added some features.
Here is his comments on the original patch:
> Below is very short documentation for this patch.
>
> This patch add capability of recognizing/reading ISO9660+RockRidge
filesystem
> to Grub and has following limitations:
>
> 1) It cannot process multisession CD (recognizes only first session),
> but bootable CD cannot be multisession.
>
> 2) It cannot mount CD if it is not attached to system by BIOS
> previously ( i.e. CD-drive mapped by BIOS itself to (hdxx) ) - because
most of
> BIOS'es has broken capability turning on El'Torito emulation by BIOS
INT
> 13h AX=4A00h call.
>
> 3) It don't support RockRidge symlinks yet.
>
> 4) It don't add special device name of CD-ROM to Grub, e.g. (cd0) -
> usually BIOS maps CD-ROM to (hd31) or number_of_last_real_hdd+1
>
>
> Example how to make a bootable CD with Grub:
>
> mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size
1
> -boot-info-table <root-of-iso-tree>
>
> You have to omit device name from Grub boot menu file (menu.lst) to
> force substitution of boot device name, it will be determined
> automatically by Grub during stage1 load.
But I have added a new drive name (cd) for a CDROM drive. This is
assigned only if you boot GRUB from a CDROM drive. So you can specify
(cd) in your config file or in the command-line interface, if you wish.
For now, I haven't added information about this into the manual yet. I
hope someone will contribute to this task.
Since this patch has changed some critical parts substantially, I'd like
many people to test the CVS version, in particular if can test a
bootable CDROM. Please report your result to this list, whether it is
successful or not. If you don't know how to get the CVS version, take a
look at the GRUB web site.
Cheers,
Okuji
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