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Re: eltorito support ..
From: |
Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: eltorito support .. |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:19:32 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
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.
--
Robert Millan
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(as seen on /.)
- 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 <=
- 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 .., Bean, 2008/01/29
- Re: eltorito support .., Robert Millan, 2008/01/29