Re: Booting CDs with GRUB

[Derrik Pates]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:

> No that isn't possible with GRUB.  You would need a cdrom driver for
> this.  GRUB doesn't provide any disk drivers but uses the BIOS to
> access hard disk or floppy.  So it can't even access the CD-ROM unless
> the BIOS supports this.

Why not? Most El Torito CDs for PCs mount a floppy disk image as a fake
floppy drive for the actual boot process, and in that case, GRUB wouldn't
know the difference, right? It doesn't have to know about the CD-ROM drive
itself, just to boot the kernel off the floppy, and give it the right path
for its root image... right? Or am I all wet?

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