How to configure GRUB to boot from CD-ROM?

[Tim]

On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 21:20 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote:
> I would like to include an entry in my GRUB menu to let it boot from 
> CD-ROM. To make it clear: I do not want to install GRUB on CD-ROM. I
> want a menu entry pointing to CD-ROM in my locally installed GRUB.
> 
> Is such configuration possible? And if it is, how does it look like?
> 
> I tried
> 
> title CD-ROM
> rootnoverify (hd2)
> chainloader +1

>From what I've read, the current version of GRUB can't do that (I've
wanted to do the same thing, too).  Anyway, the hd moniker only applies
to hard drives, it's not simply the drives that it finds on the IDE or
SCSI ports.  If you've come across a CD-ROM that uses GRUB, itself, as
its boot menu (to boot it, or hand over to another drive), I think
you'll find it's GRUB 2.  I seem to recall Ubuntu did it that way.

Info:  <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/>

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