Re: [debian-knoppix] Old Bios boot with floppy
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:37:03AM -0800, Stephen Samuel wrote:
> I remember seeing a FOSS boot floppy that was just designed to
> allow a legacy machine to boot off of the CD-ROM. I wish I
> could find it, because I have an old machine that keeps choking
> the rom-o-matic floppy.
Of course! That was a possibility that I did not even think off: You
could make a grub-boot-floppy which reads kernel and initrd from the
CD-Rom, and boots the kernel. Though I'm not sure if it is possible in
all cases, since the BIOS addresses of CD-Roms may vary.
Maybe we should put such a floppy image on the knoppix mirrors, for
really old computers.
Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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