Re: [PATCH] cdrom access patch

[Bean]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Christian Franke
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Bean wrote:
>  > ...
>
> >
>  > After some testing, i think the new version has some compatible issue,
>  > i remember Christian Franke reports that some bios doesn't support int
>  > 42 for cdrom, so grub_biosdisk_check_int13_extensions will fail. Would
>  > someone check if func 4b01 (the first patch cd.diff) works in such
>  > situation ?
>  >
>  >
>
>  cd.diff works on this specific PC (Asus A8N, Phonix-Award BIOS), CD
>  appears as hd31.
>
>  BTW: grub_biosdisk_iterate should IMO always expose the boot_drive (see
>  my latest patch).
>  With current CVS and cd.diff, the boot_drive would not be visible in
>  'ls' if e.g 0x80=HDD, 0x82=boot CD (as seen on some old Laptop).

Thanks for the tip, please test the new patch, it start scanning for
cdrom if the boot drive is larger than the last harddisk.

BTW, i have a small question, if there is more than one cdrom, would
bios export all of them, or just the boot one ?

-- 
Bean

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