From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GSoC: CD-ROM booting options
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:10:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5uj7o1u.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c0c43de0706040718t7460865am1d0cdf44fe001ae@mail.gmail.com> (Alex Roman's message of "Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:18:28 -0400")
"Alex Roman" <alex.roman@gmail.com> writes:
Hi Alex,
[...]
> Do we want to be able to boot the computer from GRUB2 installed on a
> medium (whatever it may be), then be able to boot from a CD (in
> whatever mode - emulation or no emulation)?
Yes.
> Do we also want to be able to boot the computer through the BIOS from
> a CD on which GRUB2 was installed and continue booting from the CD
> (like GRUB legacy does)?
Yes.
> Do we want to support both?
Yes.
> 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.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-04 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-04 14:18 GSoC: CD-ROM booting options Alex Roman
2007-06-04 15:10 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2007-06-04 17:39 ` Jeroen Dekkers
2007-06-04 18:31 ` Alex Roman
[not found] <200706041604.l54G4p0v029961@correoredir01.dinaserver.com>
2007-06-05 17:32 ` adrian15
2007-06-07 18:25 ` Alex Roman
2007-06-07 21:00 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2007-06-08 4:45 ` Alex Roman
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