Re: Booting CDs with GRUB

[John McCarthy]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Derrik Pates wrote:

> 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?

Yes, but I think that fake floppy fiction is created by the BIOS and since
my BIOS doesn't support CDROM boot I'm thinking that it can't do the fake
floppy thing (and somebody needs a CDROM driver to actually read the
floppy image from CDROM, which my BIOS is missing).


Thanks Anyway,
John McC.
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