[ale] boot from CD-ROM only when asked, for Linux

[Jerry Yu]

thanks, James. It reads pretty promising. will report back once I get to try
it out.

On 10/13/06, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 10:08 -0400, Jerry Yu wrote:
> > Often I need/want to leave a bootable cd ( such as CentOS ServerCD) in
> > a running server, in case I need to boot from it to rescue and such.
> > I have been able to do so with
> >       * solaris  in EEPROM 'b cdrom' (less desirable, since one needs
> >         to change boot-order in BIOS settings on x86 platform)
> >       * windows (press-a-key to boot from cdrom)
> > The windows solution is easier to me and seems to be handled by load
> > manager. Can GRUB or LILO do it for Linux (CentOS4/RHAS4/RHL9)? Assume
> > I have BIOS- redirect-to-serial enabled (Dell PowerEdge series) and
> > serial console enabled through GRUB and inittab.
> >
> It should. All you would need to do is make a grub.conf entry that
> points to the correct hardware device. This
> link:http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Chainloading_a_bootable_CD-ROM_from_GRUB
> looks like it has good solution.
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