On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 09:25 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Adalbert Prokop wrote: > > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote on Sunday 19 August 2007: > > > >> You may want to control when you boot off a CD - maybe even password > >> protect that menu option in grub. > > > > That's exactly my intention. :) I don't like to have CD-ROM as primary > > boot device on my laptop all the time. But sometimes booting a CD is very > > handy and I do not like fiddling within the BIOS all the time. > > Unfortunately my BIOS does not offer a separate boot menu where you can > > quickly select a boot device. > > > I just had a strange thought - I don't know if it will work. There > is a floppy image called oldbios that will allow you to boot from a > CD on systems that do not support booting from CDs. I have only seen > it as an .exe file that burns a floppy under DOS/Windows. But you > could burn a floppy, use dd to copy the image to your hard drive, > and then chainload the image when you want to boot from a CD. > > For example, if you have an image file called cd_boot.img in /boot, > and /boot is its own partition, something like: > > title CD_Boot > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainload cd_boot.img > > You will probably have to play with it a bit, because this is off > the top of my head, and I am only on my second cup of coffee... How did you manage to get the CD to be hd0?
