From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HyX4b-0004DI-Ko for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:56:01 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyX4a-0004Cx-8K for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:56:00 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyX4Y-0004Cd-TM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:56:00 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyX4Y-0004Ca-N6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:55:58 -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 1HyX4Y-0001Yb-AN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:55:58 -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 1HyX4F-0003su-Tg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:55:40 +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 1HyX4E-0001r7-Tb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:55:38 +0200 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:55:38 +0200 Message-ID: <87lken91t1.wl@dekkers.cx> From: Jeroen Dekkers To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <20070613142842.GB13859@aragorn> References: <8c0c43de0706130533y1dbec4b6ka302af5f8960b2ea@mail.gmail.com> <20070613142842.GB13859@aragorn> 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: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3 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: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:56:00 -0000 At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:28:42 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:33:02AM -0400, Alex Roman wrote: > > I've been messing around with int 13h calls and it seems that the QEMU > > BIOS supports EDD 3 extensions. > > > > However, it does not support ElTorito extensions... I called the 4D > > function (Return Boot Catalog) and the QEMU BIOS (I think) printed a > > "nice" informative message: > > "FATAL: Int13 eltorito call with AX=4D00. Please report" (see screenshot) > > > > ... which I will (report, that is) :) > > > > But I thought I'd share the find first.. Looks like I'm going to have > > to use either a different emulator (vmware&co.) or a real PC... What > > do you folks suggest? > > I was about to suggest bochs, but then found: > > ./bochs-2.3/bios/rombios.c: BX_PANIC("Int13 eltorito call with AX=%04x. Please report\n",AX); > > You could also try with virtualbox, which is (non-copyleft) free software. It > doesn't work on x86_64 hosts though. Aren't they also using the bochs BIOS? Jeroen Dekkers