ISO9660 / El Torito problems

[Bernhard Treutwein]

Okujisan,

thanks for integrating and extending Leonid's patch for ISO9660
[...]
> 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.
[...]
you asked for feedback, here it comes ...

I successfully created a bootable cdrom, it boots and it install
itself nicely on the hd ... apparently it does not break the 
installed base, but it behaves a little bit strange when 
booted from cdrom and I access filesystems on other devices
and I try to get back to the cdrom.

If booted from cdrom, I can do a

configfile (hd0,8)/boot/grub/menu.lst

to read my standard config file from my boot partition (a 100MB VFAT32
partition), I also can use it and boot with it. But any attempt to get 
back to the filesystem on the cdrom fails.

root (<TAB>

lists (fd0) (fd1) (hd0) (hd1) (cd)

root (c<TAB>

gets correctly (?) substitutet by 

root (cd)

now appending a /

root (cd)/<TAB>

gives an Error 23: error parsing number
if I try to substitute a 0 as in

root (cd0)/<TAB>

gives an Error 25: disk read error
the same happens for anything else
like 

reboot
chainloader (fd0)+1
chainloader (hd0)+1

regards
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   Bernhard Treutwein
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