On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Sam Liddicott <[email protected]> wrote:

> A rescue image made with "grub-mkrescue --diet -o grub.img" and booted as
> a cd can load a kernel and ramdisk from the CD.
>
> When converted to a floppy image: cat grub.img /dev/zero | dd bs=1024
> count=2880 of=2880.img
> it cannot load files a CD inserted into the drive but only floppy or hd.
>
> I wish to from floppy and then boot a CD - but not using a chainloader; I
> need to pass specific kernel options.
>
> Can grub do this?
>


I decided to use kexec-loader, a small linux kernel loaded from a floppy
which then uses kernel device drivers to load the next-hop kernel and
ramdisk
http://www.solemnwarning.net/kexec-loader/
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