Oh ok, that's good news regarding El Torito. I'll start wrapping my head
around the code you mentioned. The ISOs I will be booting are OS
installers. Specifically, I'm trying to boot a legit Windows 7 installer
from memory right now.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Tim Lewis <tim.le...@insyde.com> wrote:
> The partition driver already exists (see
> MdeModulePkg/Universal/Disk/PartitionDxe). This already recognizes El
> Torito format, so, as long as the partition you boot from is FAT32 you
> should have no trouble (see the FatBinPkg). ****
>
> ** **
>
> If you are trying to boot an OS, then you have to figure out how to
> convince how to convince that OS to continue to use that driver once it
> reaches the hand-off point in boot, because it then requires a native OS
> driver to continue to access your ISO.****
>
> ** **
>
> Tim****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Thomas Rognon [mailto:tcrog...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 04, 2013 1:31 PM
> *To:* edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [edk2] Boot to ISO image in volatile memory****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks! That gives me a great start. I'm new to a lot of this stuff,
> though, so the steps you outlined will be tough for me without guidance.
> Is there any UEFI optical drive code floating around the internet
> somewhere? I looked but couldn't find any. I'm essential doing the same
> thing as booting to a CD/DVD, except its all in memory.****
>
> ** **
>
> Thomas Rognon****
>
> ** **
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Tim Lewis <tim.le...@insyde.com> wrote:***
> *
>
> Produce an instance of BLOCK_IO protocol which returns pieces of the
> in-memory image. Then perform a ConnectController() on that handle, which
> should cause a DISK_IO and SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM to be mounted automatically.
> ****
>
> ****
>
> Then, you use the file system to load the boot loader (LoadImage()),
> signal the ready-to-boot event, set up the UEFI watchdog timer, and then
> start the boot loader (StartImage()). There may be a few more standard boot
> items I may be forgetting, but that’s about it.****
>
> ****
>
> Tim****
>
> ****
>
> *From:* Thomas Rognon [mailto:tcrog...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 04, 2013 12:21 PM
> *To:* edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* [edk2] Boot to ISO image in volatile memory****
>
> ****
>
> Let's say I'm running a UEFI_APPLICATION called IsoBootTest.efi and I have
> an ISO image in volatile memory and I have the start address and size of
> the ISO image. Can I boot the ISO image? If so, can someone give me a
> hint on how I would do it? (If it makes any difference, I'm using UDK2010.)
> ****
>
> ****
>
> Thomas Rognon****
>
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