Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-25 Thread Marco Gerards
Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Alex, 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

Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-25 Thread Marco Gerards
Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Alex, Please don't top quote, it is confusing ;-). Interesting piece of code... Yet another example of showing how to implement an ATA/IDE controller driver :) Yeah. btw, do you know http://www.osdever.net? If you are looking for even more

Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-25 Thread Marco Gerards
Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, On 25/04/07, Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Alex, Please don't top quote, it is confusing ;-). GMail is doing it... Sorry :( np, you seem to have fixed it :-) [...] If you are looking for even

Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-25 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 06:49, Alex Roman wrote: Right now I'm pondering whether it is worth implementing a BIOS calls CDROM boot support, or whether I should just go right ahead and do it all with the ATA controller. It is definitely worth doing. When BIOS works gracefully, you do not have

Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-25 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 23 April 2007 02:01, adrian15 wrote: Hello list, My name is Alex Roman and I have been selected as a Summer of Code student for the GRUB2 project. I will be adding CD-ROM booting functionality to GRUB2. Welcome! Cdrom booting funcionality for grub2 is a good piece of news.

Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-25 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 18:41, Alex Roman wrote: For GRUB 2 you will need to install ruby as well. What I actually meant with a good development environment is setting up qemu or so. Or when you want to test things on real hardware you can better use networking instead of messing

Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-24 Thread Devils-Hawk
-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

Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-24 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Devils-Hawk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070424 22:06]: 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

Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-24 Thread Alex Roman
Interesting piece of code... Yet another example of showing how to implement an ATA/IDE controller driver :) Right now I'm pondering whether it is worth implementing a BIOS calls CDROM boot support, or whether I should just go right ahead and do it all with the ATA controller. I'm not sure how

My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-21 Thread Alex Roman
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

Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-21 Thread adrian15
Hello list, My name is Alex Roman and I have been selected as a Summer of Code student for the GRUB2 project. I will be adding CD-ROM booting functionality to GRUB2. Welcome! Cdrom booting funcionality for grub2 is a good piece of news. The first stage of the project will attempt to use BIOS