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Re: eltorito support ..
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Bean |
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Re: eltorito support .. |
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Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:32:15 +0800 |
On Jan 29, 2008 5:19 PM, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
> Besides, unlike floppy or disk boot, code size is not that much of an issue
> for cdrom boot.
i think biosdisk support for cd access shouldn't be too difficult,
there is similar code in grub legacy.
--
Bean
- 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, 2008/01/29
- 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 ..,
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- Re: eltorito support .., Robert Millan, 2008/01/29