Grub with iso9660

[Mark Haney]

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.
> 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.

> 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. 

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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
InterAct Public Safety Systems
mhaney at interactsys.com
Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 
15:35:58 up 1:58, 2 users, load average: 1.79, 1.07, 0.95