On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:57:17 +0800 (PHT), P. M. D. Rodriguez
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, provided
> that this'll work, is it possible that the start-up diskette will be
> read-only, so I can transfer an image of it to a CD and use that instead
> (I do not want to allow diskette-based booting on my laptop)?
> 

grub 0.95 has support for iso9660
# mkdir /mnt/grubcd
# cp -Rv /boot /mnt/grubcd
# echo "Edit/Create grub.conf accordingly"
# cat /mnt/grubcd/boot/grub/grub.conf
title GNU/Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel root=/dev/hda1
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

# mkisofs -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 32 -o grubcd.iso -b
boot/grub/iso9660_stage1_5 -c boot/boot.catalog -boot-info-table -J -l
-L -R -r  /mnt/grubcd

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