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> 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.
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> I'd like to be able to test and demonstrate live CDs.
> Is there a way to tell GRUB to boot a CD?
> Sections 3.4 and 11.1 of the GRUB manual say to
> use device name (cd) or maybe (cd0) but
> that gives an Error 23: Error while parsing number.
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> Letting the grub shell complete "root ("
> I get Possible disks are: fd0 hd0. No CD.
> I get the same on a system that *does* boot CDs
> properly.
> I tried "chainloader /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito"
> but that's an Error 13, Invalid or unsupported executable
> format.
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> Cameron
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There's another method, too:
sbm (smart boot manager)
It comes on the Debian install disk as a floppy image which you dd to a
floppy and use it to boot from.
It is available as a package also, evidently
--
If you wrestle in the mud with a pig,
you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
-- Dave Dawson
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