Re: grub, booting a cd from a floppy

[Tom Dison <fretinator@yahoo.com>]

I use Smart Bootmanager at http://btmgr.webframe.org/


--- Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

> 
> Is there a way to boot a CD from a floppy using
> grub?
> 
> At ByteWorks[1] 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
> 
> which 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.
> 
> [1] http://stlouis.missouri.org/bworks/programs.html
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert
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