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Re: eltorito support ..


From: Bean
Subject: Re: eltorito support ..
Date: 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




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