I started this thread, but I haven't had time to look at it
again :o( What would be the device name for an ATAPI CD
drive?
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 01:22:00PM -0600, Tim Riker wrote:
> Ahh! Thanx.
>
> AFAIK grub does not include iso9660 filesystem support. It may also have
> a problem getting to CD-ROMs that the bios does not support.
>
> I believe the supported filesystems are: ext2fs, fat, ffs, minix, and
> reiserfs.
>
> On some systems cdroms are supported by the bios, and would be available
> to grub. A CD should be able to be formatted with one of the listed
> files systems provided the filesystem is accessed read-only.
>
> If iso9660 was added you could put grub in the "El Torito" section and
> the kernel and initrd images could live on the cd filesystem directly.
> This would be very cool and would allow the HD or floppy installed grub
> to choose these images as well. The problem is that few systems offer a
> BIOS interface to the CD AFAIK. So it would not work on many systems.
>
> Caldera puts grub, kernel and initrd in a 2.88 meg "El Torito" floppy
> image on the CD. This works on almost all systems. Some still do not
> handle 2.88 meg images, which then means the user must use 2 1.44 meg
> boot floppies. ;-( These currently do not use grub, but use the older
> (uglier ;-) syslinux.
>
> Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >
> > Hello, Tim!
> >
> > > "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? ;-/
> >
> > I mean, you cannot load GRUB from the hard drive or floppy and then
> > instruct it to load an OS from the CD.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pavel Roskin
>
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