Quick question about GRUB

Katch · 11-02-2006, 06:30 AM

Hi guys,

Using grub to triple boot my system accross XP, Tux and OSx86.

The quick question is; is there a nice simple line I can add to the menu.lst to also have an option to boot to my CDROM?

bernied · 11-02-2006, 06:44 AM

Here's a gentoo method:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Chainload...-ROM_from_GRUB

That 'fast method' doesn't look like it depends on gentoo in any way (though you may not need to 'mount /boot').

Katch · 11-02-2006, 07:21 AM

The quick method works, but it creates another menu that comes up after Grub where I select the CD drive.

I'm really after a sollution which is a single option in Grub that immediately boots my CD drive...

any more ideas?

pixellany · 11-02-2006, 08:14 AM

My idea is that this is not necessary...
Set the BIOS config so that the CD/DVD boots first. If there is a CD in the drive, then it will boot, otherwise, it will go on the hard drive.

Katch · 11-02-2006, 08:22 AM

I know that appears to be the obvious choice, but I don't always remember to put the CD i want to boot in b4 the loader comes up, or I forget to take it out so it bypasses the loader and goes right ahead booting the cd I didn't want it to,( I use a lot of live cd environments)

The first sollution works fine as an initial work around but its not as clean as I'd like it to be.