At 1:10 PM -0500 7/8/05, Mike McCarty wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: > >>What happens if the boot floppy contains just a grub bootsector pointing to >>the CD? (I don't know, I'm asking.) I think that would qualify as booting >>from the floppy as far as the BIOS is concerned. I expect that the CD >>would have to be set up for grub booting for this to work, however. >> >> >GRUB uses the BIOS to access the discs. So if the BIOS can't read the >CD, then neither can GRUB. If the BIOS could read the CD, then there >wouldn't be a problem, and he could boot off of a used CD as I suggested. Ack. So "bootable" means the CD is accessable at all through the BIOS, not whether it can read a bootsector per se. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
