Re: How to configure GRUB to boot from CD-ROM?

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On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 13:56 +0200, Adalbert Prokop wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote on Sunday 19 August 2007:
> 
> > >> I would like to include an entry in my GRUB menu to let it boot from
> > >> CD-ROM.
> 
> > > Perhaps I don't understand your situation; why you don't config your
> > > BIOS to do that? Just make it the primary boot device.
> 
> > You may want to control when you boot off a CD - maybe even password
> > protect that menu option in grub.
> 
> That's exactly my intention. :) I don't like to have CD-ROM as primary 
> boot device on my laptop all the time. But sometimes booting a CD is very 
> handy and I do not like fiddling within the BIOS all the time. 
> Unfortunately my BIOS does not offer a separate boot menu where you can 
> quickly select a boot device.
> 
If the CD is the primary boot, but no cdrom is present, the system will
go to the next item on the list and boot from it.  Doesn't this do what
you want?  Knoppix works this way all the time on most users systems.

Regards,
Les H

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