>>>>> Gabor Liptak writes:
GL> Let me repeat again what I'm trying to do here. I would like to
GL> be able to use dd to save an image from a bootable floppy disk to
GL> my hard drive and use grub to boot that image as a "bootable"
GL> file. Is this doable?
Grub can certainly load the first sector of your image at 0:7c00, and
transfer control to it, but you have to ask yourself ``how is the
loaded sector supposed to find the rest of the image in order to
continue the bootstrap?''
The problem is not in Grub, the problem is that there is no standard
way of communicating the location of the image to the image's
bootstrap code. If you think of a way, then you should propose it,
and then maybe it will one day be supported by Grub.
One way to avoid the issue is to load the Linux kernel directly from
Grub, and then specify the image as the root filesystem. I think
there is an option for that, but I don't know the syntax.
If only you were trying to boot the Hurd from a nested filesystem....
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