miguelcerca Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 is there a way to add a boot from cd option in grub? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Add it just like an OS, with a CD in the drive. rootnoverify (....) chainloader +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguelcerca Posted July 10, 2006 Author Share Posted July 10, 2006 Add it just like an OS, with a CD in the drive. rootnoverify (....) chainloader +1 that doesn't seem to work i don't know what the problem is really i have three hard drives two sata, one pata hd0,1 - suse - labled sda hd1,0 - windows - labled hda hd2,0 - osx - labled sdb cd-rom shows up as hdb i found there is no correlation between the sd/hd_, and hd_,_ as the hd#,# represents the order in which my bios lists the drives, then the partition # so what would be the correct hd# to add my cd-rom to grub (hd3,0 doesn't work)? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguelcerca Posted July 16, 2006 Author Share Posted July 16, 2006 no ideas, anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRP Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Press whatever key it is that accesses the interactive GRUB prompt and try pressing tab to autocomplete when you do rootnoverify (<tab>. It might not necessarily be hd_,_... I also don't know anything about your BIOS setup or anything or why you want to do this with GRUB. So I guess this could help out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 It should just automatically boot off of cd before grub loades through your bios, just set the cd/dvd drive as the first boot priority and then whenever yoou have a bootable disk in the drive at turnon it will boot to that and not even start grub.. its a bios thing, not a grub thing. max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRP Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Well, there are reasons for doing it, like BIOS not supporting boot from CD. I bet there are other ways to do it, of course, I just don't know any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Well, there are reasons for doing it, like BIOS not supporting boot from CD. I bet there are other ways to do it, of course, I just don't know any. You have a point... boot into linux and you have to edit this file : /boot/grub/menu.lst let me do some more research on what to add but that is the file that tells grub what to list on boot. max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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