On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:29:12AM -0700, ivo welch wrote: > as CD drives continue to to disappear from computers and as $5 USB drives > move towards >16GB range, it would make sense for OS makers to adopt some > standard that makes multiple ISO booting feasible and easy...even Windows. > grub probably does not have enough clout to convene this standard, even > though most PC boot OS varieties by count use it. > > last thought: vmware can hide the hardware. I wonder if a vmware like > strategy could hide just the CD drive.
That's because vmware is a virtual machine that emulates hardware and then boots the OS in the emulation. So unless you want to write a hardware emulator and run all your OSs inside it, then I don't see it helping. And if you think Microsoft cares to help anyone put their OS on a USB key along with anything else, then you are mistaken. It is not in their financial interest to make it easy for users to try other things. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
