Re: Booting a CD / Special password protection

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:

> > 1. Is there a way to use GRUB to boot a bootable CD?
> 
> Not at the moment.  I think most BIOSes that can boot CD-ROM don't
> provide an interface to this functionality.  This means that a boot
> loader has to provide it's own ATAPI driver and floppy remapping,
> which is very difficult.

I recently looked about CD-Bootable specification (El'Torro or what it
was) there were couple of new BIOS interrupt commands implemented which
enables/disables emulation etc. So probably this could be used for
this purpose. Only that remains is that ATAPI/SCSI interface.