From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750956AbWDQNcK (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:32:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750966AbWDQNcK (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:32:10 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:56805 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750956AbWDQNcJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:32:09 -0400 Subject: Re: Boot CDrom from grub From: Arjan van de Ven To: Niklaus Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <85e0e3140604170625k112680f8qd4ef96f7d3d3ea98@mail.gmail.com> References: <85e0e3140604170625k112680f8qd4ef96f7d3d3ea98@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:32:04 +0200 Message-Id: <1145280724.2847.47.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 18:55 +0530, Niklaus wrote: > Hi, > I have a bootable CD and normal ISO9660 data CD (linux non-bootable) > , both has linux on it. > I don't have the BIOS password and hence cannot change the bios > startup options. > > 1) Is there any way to boot the CD from grub command line ? if you are asking this to install a linux distro on your machine, you can just copy the vmlinux and the initrd.img (Fedora names, but most likely other distros have named these similar) to your /boot and add these to grub.conf and boot them that way. if you are asking this because you want to hack a system please go away.