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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