On Tuesday 08 July 2003 1:47 pm, Treutwein Bernhard wrote: > > > Someone has to experiment with it ... > > it is not possible to chainload into the CD, when coming from > a floppy, GRUB does not recognize the CDROM :-( > but that might also be BIOS dependent ...
I do noot need it to do that; once the floppy image boots the initrd and linuxrc will detect and mount the CD. > but that might be a smaller patch, but not on my side, I'm not > a C guru. > > But, as far as I understand Leonid's posting, it should work, > when having it on a CD in no-emulation mode. Guess I am going to have to read the archives and google a lot. I have a method of running lilo on a 2.88Mb image and using that as the -b boot.img, but am hoping to prune it to 1.44Mb I was under the impression that if I make a grub boot floppy, copy it to a 1.44Mb file; and use this as the -b boot.img, this would work I thought that the BIOS read the whole image kernel/initrd from the CD when set to boot from CD. I am not too sure how to use grub to make the jump, so that the BIOS passes control to grub. I am not likely to issue a new CD before autumn/winter; so I have lots of time :-) Any pointers for information welcome. > See also: http://www.nu2.nu/bootablecd/ about the no-emulation > mode although this page is quite heave directed to Redmont and > other commercial stuff. This is no use to us; if we cannot build it from source, we do not use it. > PS: Please keep me informed about successes/failures. > Will do Chris _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
