On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 15:55, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 15:46, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > > > > Your best bets are a) use grub to boot the kernel/initrd from an already > > installed system or b) wait a couple days when pendrive type images will > > be available for booting from usb doohickeys. [2] > > Why wouldn't a regular grub boot floppy with no kernel work? > Granted - you'd have to tell grub how to boot manually (unless grub has > a CD (x) type syntax - as they do with floppy drives) > > I'll look in the grub info page and see if I can figure something out - > since my system doesn't boot from the CD's, I can test it. > Well - I couldn't get it to work. I tried root (cd0) and grub didn't like that. Knowing that the El Torrito fakes a floppy for booting, I tried it as fd1 and that didn't work either (device doesn't exist) Unless someone knows better, I suspect grub doesn't support it :( -- Cheap Linux CD's - http://mpeters.us/linux/
