RE: Gub 0.97 prevents boot from CD

[John Lumby]

Bob Wittorf wrote:
> I set my computer to boot from the CD drive first.
How did you do that?
> ...
> and each time the Grub Stage2 comes up and diverts control from the CD
I would guess that your problem is caused not by grub but by failure of your 
computer to do what you say you asked it to do, i.e. boot from CD.      grub 
is not diverting control - by the time grub gets control, it's too late.   I 
suppose you could try chainloading the CD's boot loader from grub but I  
don't know if that would work.

If you also have a floppy disk drive on the machine, you could try making a 
Generic Linux Boot Floppy - refer to  
http://www.deesconsulting.com/glbf/README.   I did exactly that when I 
installed FC4 on one machine of mine which can't boot from CD.

John