-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 You should probably have a look at http://www.linuxbios.org/FILO maybe you can salvage something. FILO supports booting from ElTorito bootable CD media, uses 32-bit mode, and it is free of bios calls. Unfortunately its x86 only, although some work has been done to get it running on PPC.
regards DevH Alex Roman wrote: > Hello list, > > My name is Alex Roman and I have been selected as a Summer of Code > student for the GRUB2 project. I thought I'd introduce myself and my > project. I am a second year student at the University of Waterloo > (just finished 2A, first term of second year). I have experience > developing in low-level environments in C and assembly. > > Now about my project. I will be adding CD-ROM booting functionality to > GRUB2. The first stage of the project will attempt to use BIOS calls > to achieve this functionality (which is, of course, dependent on the > BIOS's capabilities, standards compliance, etc.). The second stage > will involve writing a complete ATA/ATAPI driver which would bypass > the BIOS completely, thus allowing it to work on virtually any system > out there. > > Unfortunately I only have access to ATAPI CD-ROM drives, so I won't be > able to work on SCSI and/or USB, however I will try to separate the > system to load the boot image from the driver itself as much as > possible so that future driver developments for SCSI and USB will just > be sort of drop-in replacements. > > So, just thought I'd talk a bit about what I'll be doing... > > Thank you for your attention and time. I'm sure I'll have lots of > questions in the months to come. :) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGLmM6CbmO6P7mspMRCkGqAJ9I6u7BlaiHWjJ1T5qBrwuQ3wyy0QCbBE+Q QsyJ7MVm3zNEfmA8LuVqcGE= =L3H4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel