Re: GRUB on CD

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 01:05:09AM -0400, Sam Lauzon wrote:
> 
>   Yesterday in #hurd on OPN, someone was looking for a way to install
> GRUB on a diskless system for which he had little permissions for. The
> problem was somewhat interesting but easy to solve... (boot from a CD
> and install it. :p )
> 
>   This got me thinking about trying to make GRUB boot from a CD. So I
> tried with a GRUB disk image and a CD-RW.. I got little done and decided
> to give it some thought.. 
> 
>   I feel that getting GRUB to boot from a CD would be a good step in the
> right direction and maybe having the isos boot GRUB would be nice, but I
> am unsure if GRUB will allow for this.. 

You'll need Thierry Laronde's patch for that:

http://alpha.polynum.org/misc/

It will be applied for GRUB 0.93

-- 
Robert Millan

"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"

              Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992