[plug] booting from a usb cdrom drive without bios support

[Caleb Duggan]

How do i do that? do i need to add some lines into the grub menu.lst file?

its a gentoo cd(2006.0 minimal boot) im trying to boot from but i dont  
know where to point initrd, kernel and root to

i see that for the debian installation it has the following lines in the  
grub menu.lst:
title		Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386
root		(hd0,0)
kernel	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro
initrd	/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386
savedefault
boot

do i need something similar to boot from cd?

it seems that the cd is /dev/sdc0.


On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:25:03 +0800, Arie Hol <arie99 at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>
>
> On 27 Apr 2006 at 18:13, Caleb Duggan wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to boot off a cd drive pluged in through a usb pcmcia card  
>> on a
>>  computer where the bios does not support usb booting, is there an easy
>> way  to do this? I tried smart boot manager but that didnt work.
>>
>> Is there a way to boot off the cd using an existing debian
> installation? -
>>  i can access the cd drive in that.
>>
>
> Just a thought !!
>
> I don't know if it could work, but :
>
> Have you considered modifying your Grub configuration in order to point
> the boot process/bootloader at your USB CDrom drive ????
>
>
> Regards Arie
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