Re: Using GRUB2 for booting from CD

2007-08-13 Thread Marco Gerards
"Alex Roman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > I've managed to (finally :( ) use GRUB2 as a bootloader on a CD-ROM. > It loads the kernel and all modules I tell grub-mkimage to include. > > The problem is that it doens't know how to mount the root to be able > to load other modules, read configur

Re: Using GRUB2 for booting from CD

2007-08-13 Thread Alex Roman
On 13/08/07, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Alex Roman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does this mean you implemented IDE support, etc? :-) Not yet :( but that's coming :) I'm doing it the Grub Legacy way of having a "stage 1" specifically for CD-ROM booting. So, instead of using di

Re: Using GRUB2 for booting from CD

2007-08-13 Thread Alex Roman
OK, I've done the following in grub-emu... I have a map file that looks like this: (fd0) floppy.img (cd0) grub2-iso.iso grub2-iso.iso is an iso I generate using genisoimage (mkisofs). I can mount it just fine. floppy.img is a floppy image I generate... It contains grub, basically and a few modul