On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 06:27:07PM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > 2009/12/3 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>: > > Chris Jones wrote: > >> I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick. > >> > >> > > You can't chainload to disk invisible by BIOS. But you can load > > supported OSes from it. > > What would be necessary to enable chainload to such devices? Install > an IRQ 19 handler?
Yeah, something like that. In essence, GRUB acting as a BIOS. Sounds awful, but hey we already have "efiemu". > Invoke the extension ROM of the host adapter so > that it hooks IRQ 19? There's usually no such ROM. Except for adapters that come in discrete PCI cards. And even then, I doubt it's always present. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
