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From: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cdrom access patch
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:01:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47DC1D0B.2000701@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47DB8D94.3090402@nic.fi>

Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> Bean wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Vesa Jääskeläinen <chaac@nic.fi> wrote:
>>> Bean wrote:
>>>  > Hi,
>>>  >
>>>  > I have an idea, why not have both names, (hdN) and (cd), hopefully
>>>  > this will make everyone happy.
>>>  >
>>>
>>>  Hi Bean,
>>>
>>>  I think I suggested it already ;)
>>>
>>>  Device alias is ok for me :) (and use of cd[nro] is more favorable).
>>
>> Ok, the new patch add (cd0) alias for cdrom device, the corresponding
>> (hdN) is also present.
>
> I am just wondering that this implementation is limited to cd0, you 
> cannot have cd1.
>
Apparently, a (typical) BIOS does not provide access to any CD drive 
except the boot CD.
If booted from floppy, HDD, or floppy emulation CD, no CD can be accessed.

So it probably does not make sense to add cd1,... support to biosdisk.

Christian




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-15 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-05  8:49 [PATCH] cdrom access patch Bean
2008-03-07 15:37 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-03-09 15:33   ` Bean
2008-03-10 15:53     ` Bean
2008-03-11 21:10       ` Christian Franke
2008-03-12  5:26         ` Bean
2008-03-12  6:52           ` Christian Franke
2008-03-13 22:59           ` Christian Franke
2008-03-14  5:33             ` Bean
2008-03-14 17:28               ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-14 19:58                 ` Bean
2008-03-14 20:56                   ` Bean
2008-03-14 20:58                     ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-03-15  7:34                       ` Bean
2008-03-15  8:49                         ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-03-15 10:54                           ` Bean
2008-03-15 19:01                           ` Christian Franke [this message]
2008-03-17  4:31                         ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-17  6:21                           ` Bean
2008-03-19 22:09                             ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-20  6:06                               ` Bean
2008-03-24  4:15                                 ` Bean
2008-03-14 23:20                     ` Christian Franke
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-06 23:58 Kalamatee
2008-03-08 20:16 Kalamatee

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