From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1SmKXa-0007en-Om for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:02:26 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49335) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmKXT-0007co-1d for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:02:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmKXL-0005FK-6e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:02:18 -0400 Received: from smtp21.services.sfr.fr ([93.17.128.2]:14450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmKXK-0005Er-Ur for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:02:11 -0400 Received: from filter.sfr.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by msfrf2107.sfr.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 5A180700082D for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:02:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.13] (149.174.62.62.rev.sfr.net [62.62.174.149]) by msfrf2107.sfr.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 3513C7000B6D for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:02:09 +0200 (CEST) X-SFR-UUID: 20120704080209217.3513C7000B6D@msfrf2107.sfr.fr Message-ID: <4FF3F880.4090204@laposte.net> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:02:08 +0200 From: Arbiel Perlacremaz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: Question References: <4FF39680.9050004@pimco.mobi> In-Reply-To: <4FF39680.9050004@pimco.mobi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 93.17.128.2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:02:25 -0000 Can you precise your point, as, to my understanding, Grub is able to=20 boot from CDs. For instance, Ubuntu distributions are available on CDs=20 and nobody complained until now they are not bootable. Le 04/07/2012 03:04, Andy Canfield a =E9crit : > I have a question. Bruce Dubbs said "Ask on the grub-devel site". > > I went to http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-development.html and=20 > read this: > > Those interested in its development should subscribe to the > _developers' mailing list_. As this list is a members-only list, > please subscribe to it then send e-mail to this list. > > Maybe I must subscribe to "the developer's mailing list" in order to=20 > be able to get an answer to my question. So I clicked on the link, and=20 > what I got was a blank e-mail addressed to "grub-devel@gnu.org". So I=20 > am asking. If I must subscribe to the mailing list to get the answer,=20 > please sign me up. > > Here is the question: > > *Why can't grub boot from an standard bootable CD*? > > I have many such CD's, such as the Microsoft Windows 98 install CD.=20 > Why can't grub boot from that? There must be a technical reason, but=20 > nobody says what it is. Grub can boot from all kinds of hard disks,=20 > and from diskettes; why not CD's? > > I started on an IBM 360/20 many decades ago. You dialed "0080" on the=20 > CPU and pressed the "LOAD" button. The CPU read the first card into=20 > address 0x0080 and jumped to it. I still think of booting in terms of=20 > "read it into memory and jump to it". Certainly grub should be able to=20 > use the BIOS to read the CD into memory and jump to that memory image.=20 > Why can the BIOS do that, but grub cannot? > > Thank you. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel