On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:32:20PM +0000, Yuriy Romanenko wrote:
> Sorry to bother you people, and you have every right
> in the world to just send me to the CVS to get the changelog
> and read it. But I thought it would be simpler for me
> just to ask.(Please RTFM me with a pointer to a resource
> if you feel these questions are not appropriate for this list)
>
> 1) Does GRUB currently support booting from any kind CD-ROM?
> ISO? Joliet? Is there a plan to implement that if no?
> If yes, than how is the boot disc reported to the kernel?
> (AFAIK BIOS has no numbering for CDROMS like 0x80,0x81)
no/not yet.
someone at bluepoint linux extended gnu grub to include cdrom, ntfs and befs
drivers. you can get the source at
ftp://duff.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/private/grub-0.5.94-2BP.src.rpm
but YMMV. I didnt get it working w/ cdrom.
SmartBootManager supports booting off any available el torito boot images,
apparantly even off older soundblaster ide channels.
Someone hacked sbm to load as a 'kernel' from grub.
> 2) Does it provide a valid memory map for the multiboot kernel?
> (as specified in the multiboot specifications) If yes, what
> are the restrictions on that. If no, then is there a plan to
> implement that.
> 3) How is the unusual boot media handled from the multiboot point
> of view? Are SCSI and IOMEGA drives supported? If yes, then how
> is it reported to the kernel? (BIOS Drive number doesn't exist)
> 4) Is HPFS supported? Is there plans on NTFS support???
see 1
5) considering bluepoints grub is built ontop of gnu grub, therefore
automatically gnu software, which can be reintegrated. We can at least
add befs and ntfs drivers back in.
Marco
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