On Jan 29, 2008 5:19 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
i think biosdisk support for cd access shouldn't be too difficult, there is similar code in grub legacy. -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
