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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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