On May 17, Marek Uher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not a HURD user but I am becoming very interested in GRUB. My immediate
> need is for a general purpose bootloader that can be used for a wide variety
> of operating systems. I tried to download and install GRUB under Debian GNU
> Linux 2.2 (potato) with kernel 2.2.15. I have got these problems now:
>
> 1) I can't boot other operating system different from Linux and Windows 95.
> I have instaled these operating systems:
>
> a) Solaris 7. LILO record seems like this:
> b) BeOS 4.5.2. LILO record seems like this:
> c) QNX 4.24. LILO record seems like this:
Use the same way as you would boot Windows (the chainloader option).
> 2) I want to boot from floppy, too.
ditto. Use "root (fd0)" and "chainloader +1".
> 3) Is it possible to boot from CD-ROM (like from floppy, see question #2) with
> GRUB? If yes, how can I do this?
No, GRUB doesn't support chainloading CD-ROMs yet. That is also only
possible if the BIOS supports this. Some BIOSes don't have public
methods to read a CD-ROM (or to be exact, to map a boot image of a
cdrom to a bios drive), even though they can boot from it.
Jochen
