On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:11:45AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:30:16AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > >> Kalamatee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
