Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 :-)
And how about SCSI? > Besides, unlike floppy or disk boot, code size is not that much of an issue > for cdrom boot. True. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
