[Gllug] convert cdrom to bootable partition?

Peter Joanes pjoanes at hotmail.com
Wed May 17 12:21:24 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 17 May 2006 09:49, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> I'm trying to install s.thing from a bootable cd and discovered that
> although my cd drive works from linux, the machine no longer boots off
> it. Is there any way I can convert the cd into a partition that could be
> booted from grub?

You may be able to use grub to boot directly from the cd using the slightly 
kludgy method given here:
	http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~bernhard/grub-chain-cd.html
A more detailed version of the same thing:
	http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Chainloading_a_bootable_CD-ROM_from_GRUB


Cheers,
-		Pete.
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