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Re: BOOT with GRUB from CDROM
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: BOOT with GRUB from CDROM |
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Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:26:55 +0100 |
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On Thursday 22 January 2004 08:56, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
> AFAIK it is currently not possible to chainload to
> a CDROM, Grub does not (yet ?) understand ISO9660.
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> It might be possible with Leonid Liskovsky's patch. See
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-04/msg00014.html
> and
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-01/msg00130.html
It is not enough, because BIOS does not allow GRUB to access a CDROM
automatically when booted from a hard disk. It might be possible to set
up a CDROM drive by a BIOS call, but I'm not sure. I'm afraid that it
might be necessary to make an ATAPI driver and El Trito support for
GRUB.
Okuji