Re: GRUB launch a CD?
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roby wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to be able to test and demonstrate live CDs. Is there a way to tell GRUB to boot a CD? Cameron Yes there is! Look here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06678.html That was just *too* easy. For the record: mount Debian install CD at /media/cdrom0. Copy image to boot directory. Copy memdisk from syslinux. Add to /boot/grub/menu.lst. Thank you! dd if=/media/cdrom0/install/sbm.bin of=/boot/sbm.img bs=1k count=32 cp /usr/lib/syslinux/memdisk /boot cat /boot/grub/menu.lst woot title boot whatever CD is in the drive, via SBM kernel (hd0,0)/boot/memdisk initrd (hd0,0)/boot/sbm,img woot Of course if you don't like typing into cat(1), you can use a text editor. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB launch a CD?
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:56:22AM +1000, M-L wrote: On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:49, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all: --} On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:28:02AM +, David Dawson wrote: --} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --} --} sbm (smart boot manager) --} It comes on the Debian install disk as a floppy image which you dd to a --} floppy and use it to boot from. --} --} I have an IBM PS/ValuePoint 486 and smb did not work on it. --} --} Doug. I haven't followed this thread, so this might be a silly question? But you have checked that your BIOS seeks your floppy drive at startup? That is if you have SMB on floppy, or that you can boot from CDROM if you have SMB on a CD? Clarification: it will boot the floppy but it won't boot the CDROM. Doug. I get a Disk error from SBM on my P166, but if I retry it a time or two, it works. Persistence pays. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB launch a CD?
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 01:47:39PM +1000, M-L wrote: On Sunday 29 April 2007 09:38, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all: --} On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:56:22AM +1000, M-L wrote: --} On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:49, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all: --} --} On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:28:02AM +, David Dawson wrote: --} --} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --} --} --} --} sbm (smart boot manager) --} --} It comes on the Debian install disk as a floppy image which you dd to --} a --} floppy and use it to boot from. --} --} --} --} I have an IBM PS/ValuePoint 486 and smb did not work on it. --} --} I haven't followed this thread, so this might be a silly question? --} --} But you have checked that your BIOS seeks your floppy drive at startup? That --} is if you have SMB on floppy, or that you can boot from CDROM if you have SMB --} on a CD? --} --} Clarification: it will boot the floppy but it won't boot the CDROM. Change that behaviour in the BIOS. That's if the machine is capable of booting from the CDROM? Its not. My BIOS doesn't know anything about CDROMS since they were hugely expensive when that box was made in 1992. IIRC, the part of this thread before the comments you quoted was about getting a computer whos bios can't boot a CDROM to boot a CDROM and someone else suggested sbm. I had tried it last year on my 486 and it didn't work. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB launch a CD?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've got an old Compaq laptop. It can boot from hard drive or floppy but not from CD. I installed Etch by moving its hard drive to another machine temporarily. The CD drive is fine. The BIOS is just too stupid to boot from it. I'd like to be able to test and demonstrate live CDs. Is there a way to tell GRUB to boot a CD? Sections 3.4 and 11.1 of the GRUB manual say to use device name (cd) or maybe (cd0) but that gives an Error 23: Error while parsing number. Letting the grub shell complete root ( I get Possible disks are: fd0 hd0. No CD. I get the same on a system that *does* boot CDs properly. I tried chainloader /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito but that's an Error 13, Invalid or unsupported executable format. Cameron There's another method, too: sbm (smart boot manager) It comes on the Debian install disk as a floppy image which you dd to a floppy and use it to boot from. It is available as a package also, evidently -- If you wrestle in the mud with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it. -- Dave Dawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB launch a CD?
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:28:02AM +, David Dawson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sbm (smart boot manager) It comes on the Debian install disk as a floppy image which you dd to a floppy and use it to boot from. I have an IBM PS/ValuePoint 486 and smb did not work on it. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB launch a CD?
On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:49, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all: --} On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:28:02AM +, David Dawson wrote: --} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --} --} sbm (smart boot manager) --} It comes on the Debian install disk as a floppy image which you dd to a --} floppy and use it to boot from. --} --} I have an IBM PS/ValuePoint 486 and smb did not work on it. --} --} Doug. I haven't followed this thread, so this might be a silly question? But you have checked that your BIOS seeks your floppy drive at startup? That is if you have SMB on floppy, or that you can boot from CDROM if you have SMB on a CD? Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++ I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do. ...Helen Keller Linux Debian Etch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB launch a CD?
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:56:22AM +1000, M-L wrote: On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:49, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all: --} On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:28:02AM +, David Dawson wrote: --} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --} --} sbm (smart boot manager) --} It comes on the Debian install disk as a floppy image which you dd to a --} floppy and use it to boot from. --} --} I have an IBM PS/ValuePoint 486 and smb did not work on it. --} --} Doug. I haven't followed this thread, so this might be a silly question? But you have checked that your BIOS seeks your floppy drive at startup? That is if you have SMB on floppy, or that you can boot from CDROM if you have SMB on a CD? Clarification: it will boot the floppy but it won't boot the CDROM. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB launch a CD?
On Sunday 29 April 2007 09:38, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all: --} On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:56:22AM +1000, M-L wrote: --} On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:49, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all: --} --} On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:28:02AM +, David Dawson wrote: --} --} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --} --} --} --} sbm (smart boot manager) --} --} It comes on the Debian install disk as a floppy image which you dd to --} a --} floppy and use it to boot from. --} --} --} --} I have an IBM PS/ValuePoint 486 and smb did not work on it. --} --} --} --} Doug. --} --} I haven't followed this thread, so this might be a silly question? --} --} But you have checked that your BIOS seeks your floppy drive at startup? That --} is if you have SMB on floppy, or that you can boot from CDROM if you have SMB --} on a CD? --} --} --} Clarification: it will boot the floppy but it won't boot the CDROM. --} --} Doug. Change that behaviour in the BIOS. That's if the machine is capable of booting from the CDROM? Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++ For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it. ...Henry David Thoreau Linux Debian Etch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GRUB launch a CD?
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've got an old Compaq laptop. It can boot from hard drive or floppy but not from CD. I installed Etch by moving its hard drive to another machine temporarily. The CD drive is fine. The BIOS is just too stupid to boot from it. I'd like to be able to test and demonstrate live CDs. Is there a way to tell GRUB to boot a CD? Sections 3.4 and 11.1 of the GRUB manual say to use device name (cd) or maybe (cd0) but that gives an Error 23: Error while parsing number. Letting the grub shell complete root ( I get Possible disks are: fd0 hd0. No CD. I get the same on a system that *does* boot CDs properly. I tried chainloader /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito but that's an Error 13, Invalid or unsupported executable format. Cameron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB launch a CD?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've got an old Compaq laptop. It can boot from hard drive or floppy but not from CD. I installed Etch by moving its hard drive to another machine temporarily. The CD drive is fine. The BIOS is just too stupid to boot from it. I'd like to be able to test and demonstrate live CDs. Is there a way to tell GRUB to boot a CD? Cameron Yes there is! Look here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06678.html I use this on several machines. It works finer than frog hair. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
