From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HvGWq-0003Rd-Vg for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:39:41 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvGWp-0003Q3-3Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:39:39 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvGWo-0003Pr-LM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:39:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HvGWo-0003Po-Iv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:39:38 -0400 Received: from neonescio.viaisn.org ([82.94.249.43]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HvGWo-0007Eo-4r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:39:38 -0400 Received: from dijkstra.dekkers.cx ([2001:960:7a0:0:213:d4ff:fe9c:2487] ident=Debian-exim) by neonescio.viaisn.org with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 CV=0) (Exim 4.63 #1) id 1HvGWm-0008DE-T3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:39:37 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dijkstra.dekkers.cx ident=jeroen) by dijkstra.dekkers.cx with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HvGWl-0002hu-Uu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:39:36 +0200 Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:39:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87d50br548.wl@dekkers.cx> From: Jeroen Dekkers To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <87k5uj7o1u.fsf@xs4all.nl> References: <8c0c43de0706040718t7460865am1d0cdf44fe001ae@mail.gmail.com> <87k5uj7o1u.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.0.95 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: GSoC: CD-ROM booting options 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: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:39:39 -0000 At Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:10:53 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > > "Alex Roman" writes: > > > Personally, I think both are important to support, but I want to see > > what the majority of developers and users think we should support. > > Just focus on one thing first. I think booting from a BIOS that > supports CDROMs already won't be too hard. I think booting installation and live CDs directly from the BIOS will be the most used way to boot a CD, so I guess support for that is the most important. And it indeed shouldn't be that hard. Jeroen dekkers