Ahh! Thanx.
AFAIK grub does not include iso9660 filesystem support. It may also have
a problem getting to CD-ROMs that the bios does not support.
I believe the supported filesystems are: ext2fs, fat, ffs, minix, and
reiserfs.
On some systems cdroms are supported by the bios, and would be
I started this thread, but I haven't had time to look at it
again :o(What would be the device name for an ATAPI CD
drive?
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 01:22:00PM -0600, Tim Riker wrote:
Ahh! Thanx.
AFAIK grub does not include iso9660 filesystem support. It may also have
a problem
Hello, Tim!
"El Torito" is the floppy emulation specification. Is ther another for
of bootable CD you are looking for?
I guess I'm missing something, cause it sounds like:
"Can I boot from my CD if I tell my BIOS not to boot from my CD?"
What am I missing? ;-/
I mean, you cannot load
Hello, Tim!
GRUB can boot from "El Torito" cds. Caldera uses grub-0.5.94-5 as the CD
booter in the current OpenLinux 2.4 product.
I'm affraid that GRUB in fact uses floppy emulation provided by BIOS.
I don't think GRUB can boot from CD if boot from CD is disabled in BIOS or
if BIOS doesn't
"El Torito" is the floppy emulation specification. Is ther another for
of bootable CD you are looking for?
I guess I'm missing something, cause it sounds like:
"Can I boot from my CD if I tell my BIOS not to boot from my CD?"
What am I missing? ;-/
Pavel Roskin wrote:
Hello, Tim!
GRUB
GRUB can boot from "El Torito" cds. Caldera uses grub-0.5.94-5 as the CD
booter in the current OpenLinux 2.4 product.
OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
I was wondering, though, if folks had thought about making grub
capable of booting from an ATA/IDE CD rom?
GRUB should be able to boot from a
From: David Carmean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Boot from CD?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:30:49 -0700
I've recently been trying to squeeze six operating systems onto
a single PC, and ran across grub as part of that process. I'm
still learning how to use it; e.g. I'm still having trouble
