On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 01:05:09AM -0400, Sam Lauzon wrote: > > Yesterday in #hurd on OPN, someone was looking for a way to install > GRUB on a diskless system for which he had little permissions for. The > problem was somewhat interesting but easy to solve... (boot from a CD > and install it. :p ) > > This got me thinking about trying to make GRUB boot from a CD. So I > tried with a GRUB disk image and a CD-RW.. I got little done and decided > to give it some thought.. > > I feel that getting GRUB to boot from a CD would be a good step in the > right direction and maybe having the isos boot GRUB would be nice, but I > am unsure if GRUB will allow for this..
You'll need Thierry Laronde's patch for that: http://alpha.polynum.org/misc/ It will be applied for GRUB 0.93 -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
