[OpenBIOS] Filo problems booting El Torito (LiveCD) CD-ROMS?

[roger]

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 11:01 +0100, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> On Monday 29 January 2007 06:32, roger wrote:
> > Could it be I'm just having problems using Linuxbios & Filo under Qemu
> > emulation instead of actually booting from a flash device?
> 
> That would be a qemu bug ;) But I don't think so.
> 
> > atapi_detect_medium: block_len=2048
> > atapi_detect_medium: sectors=520415
> > 1016MB medium detected
> > open_pc_partition: pc partition magic number not found
> > open_eltorito_image: El-Torito boot catalog at sector 53
> > open_eltorito_image: id=''
> > Disc doesn't use boot disk emulation
> > devopen: can't open partition 1
> 
> That doesn't look too bad. DVD was found and el Torrito recognised.
> However, besides the menu thing that hardly anyone uses, there's 3 and a half 
> different ways to boot el Torrito: Floppy emulation, hard disk emulation 
> and "No Emulation", the latter with some BIOSes loading the whole file 
> specified, and others only the first 2k block.
> 
> No emulation, one 2k block is what windoze install CDs use, and hence that is 
> all that krufty legacy BIOS vendors test. Looks like OpenBIOS doesn't support 
> that yet.
> 
> 	Torsten

I'll do some more probing here.

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Mon Jan 29 11:25:10 PST 2007