GRUB question.

[Giorgos Kostopoulos]

Hi guys! :-)
MANY THANKS for your help!!!


* 1) My BIOS boot order is:
a) floppy (yes, I'm still using it)! :-)
b) CD (DVD actually). A classic IDE one.
c) HD 0.


* 2) If I'm at GRUB menu, I'm always able to hit ctrl-alt-del and reboot
from floppy, but putting an fd0 entry in GRUB menu, giving me the
possibility to boot from the floppy (after putting a bootable floppy in
tray (eg. supergrub disk, or freedos), with selecting the floppy menu
entry, without rebooting.
Unfortunately, adding an cdr0, cdrom or dvd entry, is giving me the:

"error23: error while parsing number.
press any key to continue..."

No matter if a bootable CD (or DVD) is in tray (eg. the freedos live CD 
or the GParted one).


* 3) Yes, I think it was SBM (that I was using ages ago), that was 
capable of doing this trick.
Installing it side by side with GRUB and launching it from GRUB menu is 
a really interesting idea! :-)

* 4) gentoo-wiki.com has really interesting stuff about GRUB!!!
I didn't knew about that (and I'm completely new, to a proper Linux 
(hard disk) installation)!
Seems like more reading and practicing needed from my party! :-)
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OK! Obviously this is not an important problem (since I can always hit 
ctrl-alt-del and reboot from CD, instead of having a related GRUB (or 
SBM) entry for this task).
I'm just curious, how this can be done! :-)
I think, I'll further investigate it a bit more, and I'll be back.


Once again,
THANKS for your help!!!
Giorgos. :-)