Re: Booting grub from CD

[Peter Schuller]

> > I hate floppies ;) Hence, I'd like to make a grub boot-CD. 
> 
> IIRC it is safest to make a 1.44MB grub floppy image and use that as
> boot image for CD.  Other schemes may depend on the BIOS.  Grub asks
> the BIOS for the geometry of the boot image via standard BIOS call
> int13 ah=8.  Not all bioses provide correct geometry when booting via
> cdrom or zip drive though.

This is what I tried first. I.e. an El Toritor CD-ROM with a grub
floppy image as the boot sector. It didn't work though. Again, stage1
booted but couldn't find stage2.

So I take this means my BIOS probably doesn't provide correct geometry
for CD-ROMs? If so I'll look for an upgrade...

Thanks!

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/ Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB

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