Hello.

We are using grub as the boot-loader for a bootable CD. The boot process for the CD uses "el torito" with a primary hard-disk image (rather than a floppy image).

For those unfamiliar with the "el torito" method of booting from CD (I don't know of any other methods :), it involves storing a hard-disk (or floppy-disk) image on the CD. On booting from the CD, this image is loaded from the CD into RAM as a ramdisk, and is temporarily made the primary hard-disk of the computer. Given this, if the ramdisk has grub on its MBR and grub is properly configured, the computer should boot as it would from the actual primary hard-disk. Once the boot is complete, the ramdisk is deleted and things return to normal.

The version of grub that works in this capacity is grub_0.92+cvs20020923, i.e. the one from September of 2002. All subsequent versions do not work (yes, I should have reported this long ago), i.e. they always give an "error 18".

Is this a bug in grub, or do I need to change how grub is installed? If it's a bug, perhaps a diff could be done between the 09-23-2002 code and the current code ... ? :)

If this bug could be fixed, that would be great, m'kay?  Thaaanks.
We also need to go ahead and fix those TPS reports.

-- Harmon



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