Booting a CD using grub-0.93

[Chris Lingard]

A while ago there was a patch, by Thierry Laronde, for grub-0.92 that allowed
booting from a CD.  I have ported this patch to grub-0.93, and it is attached,
along with script mkbimage.

I have tested this, but only for Linux and ext2.  This patched version is on
my MBR, and on my boot CD.

There have been many requests over the last few months, to boot CDs using
grub.  Would those people like to test this?

The boot image is built like this:

boot/vmlinuz
boot/initrd.gz
boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5
boot/grub/stage1
boot/grub/stage2
boot/grub/menu.lst

This is tarred and used by the mkbimage script

An example of the menu is:

title Standard LFS
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/linuxrc
initrd /boot/initrd.gz

title 640x480x16M frame buffer LFS
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/linuxrc vga=0x312
initrd /boot/initrd.gz

Chris

PS
I also made a minor change for gcc-3.*
__u32 long j_mount_id -> __u32 j_mount_id in stage2/fsys_reiserfs.c

mkbimage.bz2
Description: BZip2 compressed data

grub-0.93-cd.patch.bz2
Description: BZip2 compressed data