On Tuesday 18 March 2003 5:11 pm, Jens Grivolla wrote: > I have a system that won't boot from (SCSI-)cdrom when any IDE > harddrives are configured in the BIOS (yes, this is very definitely a > bug). This is somewhat annoying and I am looking for a workaround. > > As I do have a floppy disk drive I was thinking of booting Grub from a > floppy disk and then chainloading on from the CD. Unfortunately, this > does not seem to be supported by Grub. Has anybody found a way to > make this work, or is there some other way to force booting from CD, > bypassing the BIOS?
Well, supposedly GRUB can't boot a CD. Unless- and I have been meaning to try this, why don't you go first- you map it to hd(something) in boot.map. Then boot, passing in the root and kernel parameters. I haven't tried it, but GRUB cannot tell one kind of drive from another, so maybe it can work. Another thought is replace the SCSI CD with an IDE drive. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder www.tuxcomputing.com this message brought to you by Libranet 2.7 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
