RE: Multiple boot images for CD1
True - most of the older bios's do not support multi-boot, or support badly.
Hence my interest in using Bart's diskemu utility. So long as a system will
support booting a single image from cdrom, diskemu will give you a nice menu
to allow choosing from a number of bootable images.
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/
http://www.nu2.nu/diskemu/
Thus the bios capabilities become a moot point. Boot the CD, the diskume
utility loads as the boot image, and it presents you with a commented list
of boot kernels and other bootable images to choose from. Pick one of
those, and the system boots as if that was the original boot image.
--
Dean Carpenter
Principal Architect
Purdue Pharma
dean.carpenter@pharma.com
deano@areyes.com
94TT :)
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From: Jim Westveer [mailto:jwest@netnw.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 11:31 PM
To: debian-cd@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Multiple boot images for CD1
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> I will also put a test .iso image that was created from that script,
> at the following location......<snip>.
> ISO location: http://people.debian.org/~jwest/mboot-potato.iso
Subsiquent testing with both potato and woody boot disks, show
that most BIOS's older than a couple of years, do not have the
ability to offer the user a multiple boot option.
Because of this, and because of extremely limited interest,
I am dropping this idea for inclusion in debian-cd.
Ciao,
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Jim Westveer <jwest@netnw.com>
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