Re: GRUB launch a CD?

[Roby <ElectricalSciences@Adelphia.net>]

cls@truffula.sj.ca.us wrote:

> [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.]
> 
> I've got an old Compaq laptop.  It can boot from hard
> drive or floppy but not from CD.  I installed Etch
> by moving its hard drive to another machine
> temporarily.  The CD drive is fine.  The BIOS is
> just too stupid to boot from it.
> 
> I'd like to be able to test and demonstrate live CDs.
> Is there a way to tell GRUB to boot a CD?
> 
> Cameron

Yes there is!  Look here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-grub@gnu.org/msg06678.html

I use this on several machines. It works finer than frog hair.