On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:02:23PM +0000, Shashanka Buduguntae wrote: > > Hi.. > I want to boot from cdrom using grub. I managed to set up grub to boot > from floppy,but I'm facing problems doing the same with cdroms. > It appears that grub can only see my floppy drive and my first IDE > device (my HDD). None of my 2 cdrom drives dont appear when I type > "root ( <tab>" at the grub command line, which is supposed to show me > the list of possible devices. > Any ideas on how to make the cdrom drives visible to grub? > I had set this up on my previous install..but for the life of me cant > remember how i did it. > Thanks, > Shashanka
Hi, I dont think you can do that.. because in a boot loader you are still in the mercy of the BIOS and you cant read a cd from BIOS.. moreover you wouldnt want your cd to be your "/".. btw, if your problem is kernel sitting inside the cdrom, then create a boot floppy and use that floppy image to create an el torinto iso and boot off it. (mkisofs -b floppy.img).. then u can access the kernel in (fd0) even though its physically in the cdrom regards, avati -- We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem -- how to run a sunbeam through a meter.
