RE: boot from cdrom

[Treutwein Bernhard]

Have a look at:
http://www.lrz.de/~bernhard/grub-chain-cd.html

I've written up, what works for me ...
--
        Bernhard Treutwein, IuK, Ref. III A 3
        Bernhard.Treutwein(at)verwaltung uni-muenchen de

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Molle Bestefich [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 1:28 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: sumesh
> Subject: Re: boot from cdrom
> 
> 
> Marco Gerards wrote:
> > sumesh <address@hidden> writes:
> > > Dear sir,
> > >     I can boot from a floppy by the following commands
> > >
> > >     grub>rootnoverify (fd0)
> > >     grub>chainloader +1
> > > How can I boot from cdrom like this
> >
> > You can't.
> 
> You can in fact.  Just not with Grub.
> There are other boot loaders that can do this just fine.
> 
> (And then again, you can even sort-of do it with GRUB, if you 
> use it in combination with an able boot loader.)
> 
> Smart Boot Manager is one of the options: 
> http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html
> 
> It supports booting from ATAPI (and PCMCIA) CDROMs.
> 
> If you feel like coding something up yourself, the source 
> code for Smart Boot Manager is available.  If you are in fact 
> loading your boot loader from a CDROM also, have a look at 
> ISOLINUX, which is a particularly excellently coded piece of 
> software that makes use of El Torito.
> 
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