Re: Booting CDs with GRUB

2001-09-12 Thread John McCarthy
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Jochen Hoenicke wrote: On Sep 12, John McCarthy wrote: Hi, Is it possible to use GRUB to boot a Standard PC (El Torito) bootable CDROM? I find myself needing boot floppies for every bootable CDROM I have to allow booting the CDROM on systems without BIOS

Re: Booting CDs with GRUB

2001-09-12 Thread John McCarthy
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Derrik Pates wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Jochen Hoenicke wrote: No that isn't possible with GRUB. You would need a cdrom driver for this. GRUB doesn't provide any disk drivers but uses the BIOS to access hard disk or floppy. So it can't even access the CD-ROM