Re: eltorito support ..

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:11:45AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:30:16AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> >> Kalamatee <kalamatee@gmail.com> 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

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