On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> > 1. Is there a way to use GRUB to boot a bootable CD?
>
> Not at the moment. I think most BIOSes that can boot CD-ROM don't
> provide an interface to this functionality. This means that a boot
> loader has to provide it's own ATAPI driver and floppy remapping,
> which is very difficult.
I recently looked about CD-Bootable specification (El'Torro or what it
was) there were couple of new BIOS interrupt commands implemented which
enables/disables emulation etc. So probably this could be used for
this purpose. Only that remains is that ATAPI/SCSI interface.
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