Chua Peeg wrote: > Hi, > Is anyone adding support for El Torrito support? If > yes how can I help? If not how where can I begin?
Well, I've been looking at integrating (parts of) the smart boot manager (http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/). It is a boot manager that supports the El Torrito standard to boot from CDROM (and it comes with full -nasm- sourcecode). I've been trying to get it to work in both plex86 and bochs, but I had some problems (the detection code of the el torrito extension causes the plex86/bochs bios to panic). Integrating this could be done in several ways: * create a seperate (extension) rom module that hooks itself to the appropriate interrupts (this is probably the 'easiests' to do) * integrate (parts of) the smart boot manager in the plex86/bochs bios ("unfortuntaly", most of the plex86/bochs bios is written in C - so it would probably require a lot of work to do this) * create a disk image with the smart boot manager on it and have plex86/bochs boot from HD, so the boot manager will be loaded. -- Jeroen Janssen
