Is there a way to boot a CD from a floppy using grub? At ByteWorks we have a number of machines that don't boot from the CD- ROM because the BIOS doesn't let us. As a workaround I thought of installing GRUB to a floppy and then have it continue booting from the CD-ROM.
As a positive-control test, I installed GRUB to a floppy on a machine that can boot from the CD-ROM and that has linux installed on the harddrive. That is, if I boot from the harddrive, Ubuntu starts and if I insert a Knoppix CD and boot from the CD, Knoppix boots. When I boot with this boot floppy grub starts just fine. At the grub prompt I can specify the root, kernel, and initrd for the harddrive and when I type boot, Ubuntu starts. However, I have not been able to specify the CD-ROM. If I type 'root (cd)' grub complains with "Error 23: Error while parsing number." A google for that message returns this bug report: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=12967 while states "RTFM. Not a bug." A read through the manual suggests that 'root (cd)' should work: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/root.html#root How does one tell GRUB "no, really, there is a CD-ROM device with a CD in it that contains a linux kernel, honest" ? Thanks in advance for any pointers in the right direction. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
