instalation on USB-less and CD-less machines

[Tony Nelson]

At 1:10 PM -0500 7/8/05, Mike McCarty wrote:
>Tony Nelson wrote:
>
>>What happens if the boot floppy contains just a grub bootsector pointing to
>>the CD?  (I don't know, I'm asking.)  I think that would qualify as booting
>>from the floppy as far as the BIOS is concerned.  I expect that the CD
>>would have to be set up for grub booting for this to work, however.
>>
>>
>GRUB uses the BIOS to access the discs. So if the BIOS can't read the
>CD, then neither can GRUB. If the BIOS could read the CD, then there
>wouldn't be a problem, and he could boot off of a used CD as I suggested.

Ack.  So "bootable" means the CD is accessable at all through the BIOS, not
whether it can read a bootsector per se.
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