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Re: CDROM access broken?


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: CDROM access broken?
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 10:12:58 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:38:00AM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> 
> Then, perhaps it is a different problem (bug). If you look at 
> stage2/bios.c, you find the function get_cdinfo or something similar. 
> It must detect your CDROM drive as a boot drive, otherwise it fails in 
> setting it correctly. I don't know why yet, but this function seems to 
> fail in some BIOSes. Maybe yours is one of them. Unfortunately, I don't 
> have such a BIOS in my place, so I need someone who debugs it instead 
> of me. If you can, I'd appreciate.

Btw, have you seen there's a patch for ATAPI support? Perhaps we should just
use this instead and ignore the BIOS problem.

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

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