From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ILnSY-0008Nr-DF for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:04:54 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILnSW-0008Nm-JD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:04:52 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILnSV-0008NS-La for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:04:52 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILnSV-0008NP-If for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:04:51 -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 1ILnSV-0006qp-2Y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:04:51 -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 1ILnRg-0006KK-Fz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:04:29 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dijkstra.dekkers.cx ident=jeroen) by dijkstra.dekkers.cx with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ILnRf-000447-Na for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:03:59 +0200 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:03:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87vebf87cg.wl@dekkers.cx> From: Jeroen Dekkers To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <8c0c43de0708150654u21f814eeg23bec50ef204d2b5@mail.gmail.com> References: <8c0c43de0708120914i6e759dbar83f286e826f02a48@mail.gmail.com> <87bqdb5o4s.fsf@xs4all.nl> <8c0c43de0708131144y7bc5c627m16811695945a1818@mail.gmail.com> <8c0c43de0708131740j60a74092q436f5e73a7ea91a9@mail.gmail.com> <873ayl177k.wl@dekkers.cx> <8c0c43de0708150654u21f814eeg23bec50ef204d2b5@mail.gmail.com> 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/22.1 (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: Using GRUB2 for booting from CD 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: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:04:52 -0000 At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:54:58 -0400, Alex Roman wrote: > > On 15/08/07, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > Also don't forget about the possiblity that qemu might be buggy, > > especially if you're using bios functions that aren't really used that > > much. Testing on real hardware is really necessary sometimes. > > Yes, I've gotten it to work farther along... It starts querying the > CD-ROM device for information... The problem right now is that the > c/h/s values that bochs/qemu returns when doing a diskinfo int13 > extension check are all 0xFFFFFFFF... Same code on VMWare doesn't work > because it seems that VMWare doesn't support that EDD extensions on > their CD-ROM drive :(... I'll try it on my main PC today and let you > know. Why are you using CHS and not LBA? Jeroen Dekkers