Re: Creating an option to boot from CD within GRUB
From: Mark South (mark.south_at_null.invalid)
Date: 08/30/05
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:46:13 +0200
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:51:16 +0200, Jan Sevelsted wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:07:43 +0200, Mark South wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:46:54 -0500, Dances With Crows wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know for sure, though, because I rarely boot my machines from CD
>>> and have never had any problems with changing the BIOS Setup around when
>>> I need to.
>>
>> What a pain that is.
>
> Hmm.. AFAIK the CD boot is a BIOS option and, as such, comes way
> before you even see GRUB. You'll just have to remove that bootable
> CD when it is not necessary (or un-flag the BIOS option :-( ).
I keep saying that Smart Boot Manager will work (Google wil return the
right hits if fed those three words).
It enables one to boot from CD even on a machine that has no BIOS setting
for CD boot. It can be installed on a floppy or your hard disk MBR.
> Good luck.
Get a floppy and try it, it's a 10-second download and it's even less work
than messing with the BIOS.
-- mark south: world citizen, net denizen echo znexfbhgu2000@lnubb.pb.hx | tr [a-z] [n-za-m]
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