Re: [Bug-grub] Booting DOS from a floppy image

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Dr A V Le Blanc <address@hidden>
Subject: [Bug-grub] Booting DOS from a floppy image
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:34:43 +0100

> It seems to me that any existing netbootable image should work,
> although I don't know whether GRUB itself or the boot code in the
> image needs to replace the int 13H handler.  But there must be some
> way of doing this.  Would it mean adding an extra 'kernel' format
> to GRUB to allow it to load a bootable floppy image?

  No. Instead, you should add a command (e.g. "nbi") to load Network
Boot Images. I don't think that would be difficult, because you just
need to load a NBI to upper memory, analyze the header, relocate the
image, and chainload the bootstrap code. That is very similar to what
the command chainloader does.

Okuji