--- Jeroen Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > * create a seperate (extension) rom module that > hooks itself to the appropriate interrupts (this is > probably the 'easiests' to do) If you need help with this let me know with what. > * 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) I agree I think it would be a pain to port all of the "Smart Boot Managers" capabilities into C and into the Plex86/Boochs bios. Pehaps I'll try to port just some of the capabilities that just involve El Torrito support. Piece meal is definately better here. > * 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. I can try this out first because if Plex86 is panicing from the boot manager, it might be very important to squash that bug.
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