From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Hgm9Q-00081u-Ra for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:23:36 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hgm9O-0007zP-DK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:23:34 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hgm9N-0007z4-SZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:23:34 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hgm9N-0007yz-OZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:23:33 -0400 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hgm3i-0005WV-VH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:17:43 -0400 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6DA53D0FEEB8 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:12:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9266E3D0FEEB7 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:12:41 +0200 (CEST) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:17:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200704211558.l3LFwgRT001308@correoredir01.dinaserver.com> <462BF777.1030800@raulete.net> In-Reply-To: <462BF777.1030800@raulete.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704252017.37902.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000004, version=0.17.2 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: My Summer of Code Project X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:23:34 -0000 On Monday 23 April 2007 02:01, adrian15 wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > My name is Alex Roman and I have been selected as a Summer of Code > > student for the GRUB2 project. I will be adding CD-ROM booting > > functionality to GRUB2. > > Welcome! Cdrom booting funcionality for grub2 is a good piece of news. > > > The first stage of the project will attempt to use BIOS calls > > to achieve this functionality (which is, of course, dependent on the > > BIOS's capabilities, standards compliance, etc.). > > Ok. That's how it works in Grub legacy I suppose. Nope. This is a different thing. This is a new feature which is not present in GRUB Legacy. Although people often mistake this, booting a CD from GRUB is quite different from booting a GRUB installed into a CD. GRUB Legacy has the latter feature, but not the former one. GRUB 2 needs to support both cases, but I prefer to see something not present in GRUB Legacy implemented in GRUB 2 first. Okuji