[Klug-general] Booting Options

[rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk]

Thanks  to everyone, for the advice
 and particularly Karl whose answers I always find particularly 
concise and informative. I have a machine that Dual Boots Windows/ 
Ubuntu so I can check from there and hopefully add another little piece 
to the jigsaw of my slowly accumulating knowledge.
      Will also have a look tonight for GRUB boot from Floppy as well. 
Will let you know how I get on, but I am having a lot of fun finding 
out, and I get a particular kick out of using older equipment, but I do 
find info hard to get . It either assumes prior knowledge or I am sent 
all over the place gleaning snippets here and there. Thank Goodness for 
you Guys and Girls !!
        Regards R.  

>----Original Message----
>From: karl at qdh.org.uk
>Date: 15/09/2008 14:51 
>To: "Kent Linux User Group - General Topics"<kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Cc: "rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk"<rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk>
>Subj: Re: [Klug-general] Booting Options
>
>
>> > 1) to divert the boot process to a Cd at GRUB stage or is it 
already 
>> > committed to load from hard drive?
>
>Yes all you need to do is chainload to the correct device, you can do
>this from the grub command line, check out how grub handles windows 
dual
>boot machines, its the same process to boot from the cd drive.
>
>> > 2)Can I boot from the current OS (DSL) , mount CDrom do an 
install 
>> > from a live disc or iso image of the required system?  
>
>Mounting it won't help, you'd need to use kexec to boot into the boot
>kernel on the CD iso... this is a pain in the arse, best off going 
for
>the first option.
>
>K,
>
>
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