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

[James P. Kinney III]

Hope it helps. I have not tried it yet. It makes sense from a cursory
overview. There is a definite need for this process for some of what I
deal with but I haven't had to time to build and test yet. If you make
it work, please report it to the ALE list. Aaron would probably like to
see a presentation as well :)

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 22:22 -0400, Jerry Yu wrote:
> 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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