GRUB question.

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/8/8 Giorgos Kostopoulos <giorgos67 at gmail.com>:
> Hi! :-)
>
>
> I just installed kubuntu and I have a question.
> GRUB set entries for launching kubuntu and windows.
> I added myself an entry, for booting from the floppy (fd0).
>
> Is there any possibility for adding a similar entry for booting from CD
> (without rebooting)?
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Really nice to find you! :-)
> Giorgos.
>

Interesting idea and i see how it can be useful sometimes if you for
example has disable the CD boot option i BIOS.
I Googled and found it's possible to do with some help of syslinux. I
have not tested it yet but check this links for more info and how to
do it.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=168693
http://gentoo-wiki.com/GRUB/Chainloaded_CD-ROM
http://cutecomputer.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/boot-cdrom-through-grub/
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~bernhard/grub-chain-cd.html

/ Jonas