Re: grub-0.92_cd+ef.diff.gz patch and booting from cdrom

[Thierry Laronde]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:25:26PM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> > > What comman can I use to boot?
> >
> > These patches are here to allow booting _from_ CDROM. Not to boot a CDROM
> from
> > floppy or HD. There is no command.
> 
> Sadly :(
> Is this some workaround to boot CDROM from hdd?

Code...

If you are lucky --- but this is an exception --- an El Torito compliant
BIOS may (this is a side effect and absolutely not mandatory) presents a
_bootable CDROM not selected as a boot device as the "last" additional
drive (e.g. if you have only one disk, you will see a hd1 appears if the
image on the CD is a HD emulation, or a fd1, a second floppy if this is
a floppy image). In this case, however, you have only access to the El
Torito images, and you need some code to access the raw CD (but this is
possible).

In a more general way, you need to dive seriously in the possibility to
add drivers to the bootloader, and you can only try this non trivial
task by considering first the standalone library of the *BSD flavors.

Cheers,
-- 
Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <address@hidden>
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