On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 15:12, Linux wrote: > Since grub 0.95 it comes with iso9660 support. I now managed to create a > boot CD using this support. (When will the Fedora distro use grub on it's > distribution CD? Its much more flexible then syslinux!!) > The Fedora Distro does use GRUB. You can stick GRUB on a floppy to boot, but it's much simpler to use mkbootdisk. > What I did not succeed to do, is making a boot diskette with grub that can > access a CD in a CD drive and load kernel and initrd from that CD while > having booted into grub from that floppy. > Have you looked into mkbootdisk --iso? That will build a bootable ISO image you can burn to CD using your favorite CD burning utility. > I think I have to use the iso9660_stage1_5 file for this. But when I tried > to embed this file from grub it did not succeed. > > Has anyone any information if and how this would be possible?? > > Regards, Koos. -------------------------------------- Mark Haney Network Administrator InterAct Public Safety Systems mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 15:35:58 up 1:58, 2 users, load average: 1.79, 1.07, 0.95
