From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JJmlL-0005Zo-QV for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:28:15 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJmlI-0005XO-Ue for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:28:13 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJmlG-0005V3-9L for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:28:12 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJmlF-0005Ur-Ux for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:28:09 -0500 Received: from smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.30]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJmlF-0007Wl-Ky for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:28:09 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0T9S2Jw060600 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:28:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <5cc84b460801281910v5fb8ac79pda9491c57b5cc585@mail.gmail.com> <87fxwhc9uv.fsf@xs4all.nl> <20080129085932.GB30048@thorin> <87fxwhatda.fsf@xs4all.nl> <20080129091932.GH30048@thorin> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:29:35 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20080129091932.GH30048@thorin> (Robert Millan's message of "Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:19:32 +0100") Message-ID: <873ashasjk.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 Subject: Re: eltorito support .. 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: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:28:13 -0000 Robert Millan writes: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:11:45AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Robert Millan writes: >> >> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:30:16AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: >> >> Kalamatee 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 :-) And how about SCSI? > Besides, unlike floppy or disk boot, code size is not that much of an issue > for cdrom boot. True. -- Marco