GRUB question.

[Derek Broughton]

Giorgos Kostopoulos wrote:

> * 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.

That's a reboot - no wonder I was confused.  You always have to reboot to
start a new kernel.

> Unfortunately, adding an cdr0, cdrom or dvd entry, is giving me the:
> 
> "error23: error while parsing number.
> press any key to continue..."

What exactly do you have in /boot/grub/menu.lst?
-- 
derek