Re: Woody release?
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Roland McGrath wrote:
> What do you mean exactly by CD support in GRUB? You want GRUB to be able
> to read an ISO-9660 filesystem from a CD? The way booting from ISO-9660
> CDs works is that a file on the CD contains a floppy disk image and the
> BIOS acts like that image file is the floppy disk drive. I think GRUB uses
> the BIOS floppy calls, so it will just be fooled as intended.
There was a discussion somewhere (boot-floppies?) whether grub could be
used to choose which image to boot from a cdrom. I do not know the
answer.
Phil.
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