Making a CD to boot OS on HDD

mortalic · 07-31-2009, 06:50 AM

I have a small issue with my motherboard that resulted in the onboard sata controllers not working. I purchased a PCI-X sata controller which worked great for the install (I installed ubuntu 9.04), but my bios has no option to boot from it.
HDD, cd or external device are the only options and they don't work.

Since the IDE controller still works, it seems logical that I could create a cd to boot the operating system that's installed on the hdd. Can someone point me in the right direction to achieving this? Thanks!

linus72 · 07-31-2009, 07:06 AM

You mean like a bootmanager?

I use Plop bootmanager

Here, this is plpbt, which is the bootmanager(no install to mbr)

plpbt

it will try to boot usb, hd, cd, etc

just put that on usb and make this syslinux entry

Code:

label plop
menu label PlopBoot
kernel /plpbt

you can get the full plop from their site
and use plpbt.img or plpbtin.img(installs to mbr)
floppies

you do have a usb port?
floppy?

mortalic · 07-31-2009, 05:03 PM

Yes I think this is what I need, I'll look into it. I think the system can boot from USB, I think that's the bios entry for "External Device".

Though I'd have to go buy a usb drive for permenant booting, I'd much prefer to make a boot CD, can plop do that as well?

I'll do some research on this tonight.

linus72 · 07-31-2009, 05:22 PM

Yeah, it works off cd too

instead of wasting a whole cd on couple mb plop
try my multidistro
stuff
http://multidistro.com/downloads/isos/isos.html

get IMSHLD or multidostromagic

http://multidistro.proboards.com/ind...splay&thread=5

http://multidistro.proboards.com/ind...splay&thread=4

tell me if any issues

mortalic · 08-01-2009, 01:46 AM

Ok i'm confused, maybe you can break it down a bit more for me (sorry i'm slow sometimes).

My goal is to make a cd that will boot the ubuntu install already on the PC (there are a few reasons I need to go with this install).

My limited knowledge suggests I need to somehow make an iso that's bootable that contains grub and points to the sdb1 /root image. Is that a good synopsis?

With the multidistro download section I'm going through the readme but I'm still a bit confused as to what all I need to download and use.

By the way, thanks for helping me, I really appreciate it.