Have a look at:
http://www.lrz.de/~bernhard/grub-chain-cd.html
I've written up, what works for me ...
--
Bernhard Treutwein, IuK, Ref. III A 3
Bernhard.Treutwein(at)verwaltung uni-muenchen de
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Molle Bestefich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 1:28 PM
> To: bug-grub@gnu.org
> Cc: sumesh
> Subject: Re: boot from cdrom
>
>
> Marco Gerards wrote:
> > sumesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Dear sir,
> > > I can boot from a floppy by the following commands
> > >
> > > grub>rootnoverify (fd0)
> > > grub>chainloader +1
> > > How can I boot from cdrom like this
> >
> > You can't.
>
> You can in fact. Just not with Grub.
> There are other boot loaders that can do this just fine.
>
> (And then again, you can even sort-of do it with GRUB, if you
> use it in combination with an able boot loader.)
>
> Smart Boot Manager is one of the options:
> http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html
>
> It supports booting from ATAPI (and PCMCIA) CDROMs.
>
> If you feel like coding something up yourself, the source
> code for Smart Boot Manager is available. If you are in fact
> loading your boot loader from a CDROM also, have a look at
> ISOLINUX, which is a particularly excellently coded piece of
> software that makes use of El Torito.
>
>
>
>
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