From: David Carmean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot from CD?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 08:30:49 -0700
> I've recently been trying to squeeze six operating systems onto
> a single PC, and ran across grub as part of that process. I'm
> still learning how to use it; e.g. I'm still having trouble
> getting Linux to boot, even after specifying "root=/dev/xxxx"
> on the "kernel" line. No worries...I'll figure it out.
I think we can help you, though.
> I was wondering, though, if folks had thought about making grub
> capable of booting from an ATA/IDE CD rom?
GRUB should be able to boot from a bootable-CDROM, but I can't
ensure that, since I haven't checked it for a while. Do you have any
trouble?
> Also wondering if anyone knows whether NTLDR has command-line
> switches such that I could tell it to boot directly into one
> of the MS systems, rather than going through it's menus?
I don't know. Microsoft might tell you, if you contact it.
> is, on this system I have Win98, NT4.0, and Win2K; the latter are
> in extended partitions. I would like to boot to all three directly
> from grub, if possible, but trying to chain to the extended/logical
> partitions hasn't worked.
What error messages are displayed?
Okuji
