From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Nick Garnett <nickg@ecoscentric.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
M Arshad Khan <marshadkhan@gmail.com>,
ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Redboot Bootable CD
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070608131720.GC14051@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3k5uefvui.fsf@xl5.calivar.com>
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 01:56:37PM +0100, Nick Garnett wrote:
> Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:37:33AM +0500, M Arshad Khan wrote:
> > > Hello
> > > is there any way of making Redboot bootable CD instead of floppy?
> >
> > I believe the bootable CD format is actually based around floppy. Take
> > a read of http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/cd-roms.html and other
> > similar HOWTOs.
>
> While the current floppy code could be adapted, the simplest approach
> is probably to build RedBoot for GRUB booting and then install GRUB on
> the CD to load RedBoot.
Just for interest, what actually would need adopting? If it works for
a floppy, why would it not work for a bootable CD?
Thanks
Andrew
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-08 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-08 12:23 M Arshad Khan
2007-06-08 13:51 ` Andrew Lunn
2007-06-08 14:27 ` Nick Garnett
2007-06-08 14:36 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2007-06-11 14:05 ` Nick Garnett
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