Re: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-14 Thread Alex Roman
On 13/06/07, Alex Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We might have to read the boot catalog manually, not with the 4Dh function to achieve more compatibility. Tonight I'll try to do an "Extended Read", function 42h, to get the boot catalog and parse it in a structure and see if it "makes sense".

Re: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:55:38PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > "FATAL: Int13 eltorito call with AX=4D00. Please report" (see screenshot) > > > > > > ... which I will (report, that is) :) > > > > > > But I thought I'd share the find first.. Looks like I'm going to have > > > to use either a

Re: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Roman
On 13/06/07, Vesa Jääskeläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alex Roman wrote: El Torito part of the EDD3 spec might not be accessible if you have not booted with such media that needs that support. At least this seems to be case with VMWare which uses Phoenix BIOS. I once tested out those CD-ROM a

Re: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Roman
On 13/06/07, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the bios service is not reliable, the best way to access cdrom is to use ATAPI command directly. That is the second stage of my project... the first stage is to make this work using BIOS Int 13h which will be useful since it provides compati

Re: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-13 Thread Bean
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:33:02AM -0400, Alex Roman wrote: > I've been messing around with int 13h calls and it seems that the QEMU > BIOS supports EDD 3 extensions. > > However, it does not support ElTorito extensions... I called the 4D > function (Return Boot Catalog) and the QEMU BIOS (I think

Re: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-13 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:28:42 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:33:02AM -0400, Alex Roman wrote: > > I've been messing around with int 13h calls and it seems that the QEMU > > BIOS supports EDD 3 extensions. > > > > However, it does not support ElTorito extensions... I cal

Re: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-13 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Alex Roman wrote: > On 13/06/07, Alex Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However, it does not support ElTorito extensions... I called the 4D >> function (Return Boot Catalog) and the QEMU BIOS (I think) printed a >> "nice" informative message: >> "FATAL: Int13 eltorito call with AX=4D00. Please re

Re: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:33:02AM -0400, Alex Roman wrote: > I've been messing around with int 13h calls and it seems that the QEMU > BIOS supports EDD 3 extensions. > > However, it does not support ElTorito extensions... I called the 4D > function (Return Boot Catalog) and the QEMU BIOS (I think

Re: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Roman
On 13/06/07, Alex Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, it does not support ElTorito extensions... I called the 4D function (Return Boot Catalog) and the QEMU BIOS (I think) printed a "nice" informative message: "FATAL: Int13 eltorito call with AX=4D00. Please report" (see screenshot) Furth

QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Roman
I've been messing around with int 13h calls and it seems that the QEMU BIOS supports EDD 3 extensions. However, it does not support ElTorito extensions... I called the 4D function (Return Boot Catalog) and the QEMU BIOS (I think) printed a "nice" informative message: "FATAL: Int13 eltorito call w