[Bug-grub] Booting DOS from a floppy image

2000-09-14 Thread Dr A V Le Blanc
I am sending this (reluctantly) to this list, although it is rather a wishlist question than a bug report. I have been a GRUB user for some years, originally to allow users on teaching machines to select the operating system to boot; at one time we had Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, NT, and Linux

Re: [Bug-grub] Booting DOS from a floppy image

2000-09-16 Thread Dr A V Le Blanc
I wrote: It seems to me that any existing netbootable image should work, although I don't know whether GRUB itself or the boot code in the image needs to replace the int 13H handler. But there must be some way of doing this. Would it mean adding an extra 'kernel' format to GRUB to allow it

Success booting CD from a GRUB prompt

2004-05-17 Thread Dr A V Le Blanc
I mention this here since people often ask for it. I found that it is possible to use the CD booting feature of smb from the GRUB prompt with the help of memdisk. I'm using GRUB 0.93, incidentally. SBM, the Smart Boot Manager, is available at http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ and allows you to boot