instalation on USB-less and CD-less machines

[Mike McCarty]

Tony Nelson wrote:

>What happens if the boot floppy contains just a grub bootsector pointing to
>the CD?  (I don't know, I'm asking.)  I think that would qualify as booting
>from the floppy as far as the BIOS is concerned.  I expect that the CD
>would have to be set up for grub booting for this to work, however.
>  
>
GRUB uses the BIOS to access the discs. So if the BIOS can't read the
CD, then neither can GRUB. If the BIOS could read the CD, then there
wouldn't be a problem, and he could boot off of a used CD as I suggested.

Mike

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