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Re: eltorito support ..
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: eltorito support .. |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:29:35 +0100 |
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Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:11:45AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:30:16AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> >> Kalamatee <address@hidden> writes:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> > I read in previous mails that eltorito support would be getting worked
>> >> > on
>> >> > for the summer of code projects, and that it should be getting merged
>> >> > into
>> >> > the grub2 codebase at somepoint.
>> >> >
>> >> > Im just wondering what is the current situation with this? Is there any
>> >> > timeline when it will be completed?
>> >>
>> >> Actually, I have no idea... Alex Roman worked on this. Perhaps you
>> >> can contact him? The code is on the GSoC projects page. Robert tried
>> >> to get it to work, but IIRC there were problems.
>> >
>> > I think using the ata driver would be a better approach. When our driver
>> > doesn't "taint" bios-based CD access, we could merge the eltorito loader
>> > from
>> > GSoC codebase, without having to solve the problems in biosdisk CD access.
>>
>> I prefer both. Not all CDROM drives are ATA drives.
>
> But we are likely to get USB support this summer :-)
And how about SCSI?
> Besides, unlike floppy or disk boot, code size is not that much of an issue
> for cdrom boot.
True.
--
Marco
- eltorito support .., Kalamatee, 2008/01/28
- Re: eltorito support .., Marco Gerards, 2008/01/29
- Re: eltorito support .., Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: eltorito support .., Marco Gerards, 2008/01/29
- Re: eltorito support .., Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: eltorito support ..,
Marco Gerards <=
- Re: eltorito support .., Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: eltorito support .., Marco Gerards, 2008/01/29
- Re: eltorito support .., Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2008/01/29
- Re: eltorito support .., Bean, 2008/01/29
- Re: eltorito support .., Robert Millan, 2008/01/29