Re: Booting from CDs

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:57:52PM +0100, Greg Buchholz wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Dan Rasmussen wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to use GRUB to boot from an IDE CDROM drive?  If so, how?  I
> > was unable to find any reference to doing so in the GRUB documentation.  Saw
> > that it was on a TODO list two years ago, and wonder if it's been done yet.
> 
>       I haven't tried it out myself, but there's a patch out there that
> supposedly allows grub to read iso9660 filesystems...
> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=4612&group_id=68

Is anyone looking through this?

Gary: have you assigned copyright to the FSF for this patch?

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

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