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Re: eltorito support ..


From: 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





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