"El Torito" is the floppy emulation specification. Is ther another for
of bootable CD you are looking for?
I guess I'm missing something, cause it sounds like:
"Can I boot from my CD if I tell my BIOS not to boot from my CD?"
What am I missing? ;-/
Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> Hello, Tim!
>
> > GRUB can boot from "El Torito" cds. Caldera uses grub-0.5.94-5 as the CD
> > booter in the current OpenLinux 2.4 product.
>
> I'm affraid that GRUB in fact uses floppy emulation provided by BIOS.
> I don't think GRUB can boot from CD if boot from CD is disabled in BIOS or
> if BIOS doesn't support it.
>
> I'd prefer to be wrong though. In this case, patches will be welcome :-)
>
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
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