[Gllug] Raw Partitions

David Godfrey dave at lists.deltass.co.uk
Thu Nov 17 12:31:45 UTC 2005


Stephen Harker wrote:

> Richard Cohen wrote:

> >This of course assumes you have a floppy drive.  I don't.  I therefore
> >seem to be unable to upgrade my BIOS...
> 
> Ah. You can burn a CD and use the floppy image as an EL-Torito boot 
> image to make the CD bootable.
> 
> mkisofs -b /path/to/floppy.img -o bootable.iso ...
> 
> or something like that.
> 
> Should boot just like a floppy.

Or if you are too mean to burn a CD, you could use memdisk and boot
directly from the floppy image file. I use this for booting floppy
images over the network but it shouldn't matter where the image is as
long as grub can find it.

e.g. 

title DPT RAID Manager
        root (nd)
        kernel /image/memdisk
        initrd /image/dpt.img

Regards
-- 
Dave Godfrey
dave at deltass.co.uk
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