Re: eltorito support ..

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:30:16AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Kalamatee <address@hidden> 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.

-- 
Robert Millan

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