URL:
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Summary: GRUB makes BIOS poke CD-ROM at boot on Acer5633
notebook
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: bughunter2
Submitted on: Friday 22/02/08 at 21:53
Category: Booting
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Action Request
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name:
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 1.96
Reproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release:
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Details:
When GRUB is booting, the CD-ROM drive spins up, stops, spins up and then
finally GRUB may continue booting.
This is caused by `int $0x13' in `kern/i386/pc/startup.S'. It should
reset the disk system, but on my system it seems to affect the CD-ROM drive
too. It only happens when a CD-ROM is in the drive. I had a bootable CD-ROM
in the drive (I don't know if it would make a difference with a normal
CD-ROM).
It would be nice to make it a configurable item whether or not the `int
$0x13'
will be executed. I don't know if it would be easy or possible at all to
make
such a low-level thing configurable.
I've included a patch.
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Date: Friday 22/02/08 at 21:53 Name: startup.S.patch Size: 39B By:
bughunter2
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=15096>
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