At 21:37 09-09-2004, you wrote:
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.
I am not looking for the easiest way, but the most elegant way.
> 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.
Making a GRUB bootable CD is no problem at all. What I can't get to work
is installing GRUB on another medium, like floppy and harddisk, and then,
after the system has booted into GRUB, being able to access a kernel and
initrd that reside on a cd/dvd.
I would like to use a grub.conf like this:
---------------------------------------- grub.conf
-------------------------------
default 0
timeout 10
title My Linux on harddisk
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd.img
title My rescue on CD
root (cd)
kernel /vmlinuz ro text rescue
initrd /initrd.img
------------------------------------ end grub.conf
-------------------------------
If I make a CD bootable grub with stage2_eltorito from grub-0.95, the (cd)
directive is available. If I install the stage2 from grub -0.95 on floppy
or harddisk, the (cd)-directive is not available. Further I can't find any
documentation on how to incorporate the iso9660_stage1_5 image in the boot
system.
I found a message describing the command to use in the grub shell is:
install (fd0)/stage1 (fd0) (fd0)/iso9660_stage1_5 (fd0)/stage2 p
(fd0)/grub.conf
In this example all the stage files where installed in the root of the
floppy filesystem.
Following this I had a floppy that after booting wrote the word "GRUB" to
the screen endlessly.
Should I just replace stage2 with iso9660_stage1_5 in the install-command?
Any help is welcom.
Regards, Koos.
> 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.