yes, im in grub and i want to boot win xp installer or debian installer. but since there is no way to do that i will boot from the cd by adjusting the bios setting. in other pc kasi hindi supported ang boot from cd... thanks for your response. im sorry for the inconvenience if i post in tagalog mixed with english. mejo magulo ba?
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:11:34 +0800, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:21:39 +0800, Gideon N. Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > You can, however, boot GRUB on a CD. I think you'll be using that > > floppy image of yours since bootable CDs are using a floppy image to > > boot. Google for "El Torito Bootable CD" > > i don't think that's what he wants to do. what he wants to do is, for > instance, put a > debian bootable CD installler in his cd drive, reboot, and then, at > the grub prompt, > be able to choose "CD" and then it'll boot the debian installer and he > can continue > to install debian. > > ahm, on the other hand, it looks like lilo has the same problem grub has. > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo/ > and search for CD. read the thread with the subject of Boot CD with > lilo in MBR. > > the reply says to write an el torito bootable CD, as you say. the > problem with this > is, the installer CD he's using might not use the El Torito "format". > e.g., what if he > wants to run the XP installer? is that el torito (sorry,can't test, > don't want to reboot :). > > ah, cj, is this sort of what you want? to boot from a windows > installer, for example? > or some other linux installers? or are you interesting in making your > own boot CDs > and booting from those? > > tiger > > -- > Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" > Mene sakhet ur-seveh > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > -- ********************************************** Carlos Jhunie L. Pangilinan, Jr. Web Developer/Programmer Tel: +63448809981 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +639276389988 ********************************************** -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
