Comments on: Boot CDROM through GRUB

By: Lost

Lost — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:02:58 +0000

Let me ad that every time i boot even to the hard drive i get error

SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 2: ST(!—(s1)
Warning: Immediately back-up your data and repalce your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminente

Press f1 to continue

once i press f1 everything works fine and boots with not problem to hard drive ubuntu only

By: Lost

Lost — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:59:10 +0000

Hi guys I am lost! I got the great idea to load Ubuntu on my hp laptop and did something that deleted all the partitions so nothing worked. I did not have the recovery disk from hp so ordered and in the mean time I installed ubuntu on the entire drive with nothing else. Now I have the disks but cannot boot to cd to do a system recovery. I have tried everything with ubuntu disk including deleting all partitions and I still cannot boot to cd except for ubuntu disk of course. I tried to drag the files you have listed memdisk.bin and sbootmgr.dsk to the boot/grub but says I don’t have permission. Can someone take extreme pity on my and give me detailed instructions I have no idea how to do anything and evidently I am not allowed to anyway and I am the only user I set up and I have to login but still not allowed to do anything. I really don’t want to go buy a new hard drive. Thanks

By: Daniel Thorpe

Daniel Thorpe — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:48:56 +0000

is there any way to do this for sd slot?

By: boblee

boblee — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:23:41 +0000

Great Blogging!! Keep Your Good Work Going!! Processor

By: yylex

yylex — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:51:00 +0000

Wow, it worked for me!

A very old computer I’m trying to resurrect is booting Ubuntu 9.04 right now!

And for people doubting what should they put in root (hdX,Y) since this works as adding another kernel for your already installed OS it should work to just add the same root line –in my case it’s (hd0,1)

Easy and fast solution you posted. Thanks.

By: RaiulBaztepo

RaiulBaztepo — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:16:20 +0000

Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo

By: Jan Piet Wielenga

Jan Piet Wielenga — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:24:28 +0000

Anybody knows a similar solution for USB CD-ROM Drive. (I hate VAIOs, especially when you don’t have their CD-Drive)

By: how to install a floppy drive

how to install a floppy drive — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:25:10 +0000

i had to boot to a floppy a few days back, i forgot how slow they are !!!

By: Name

Name — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:39:34 +0000

How come there are other bootloaders that allow booting to a CD-ROM with no extra files? Is it that the functionality isn’t built into GRUB?

By: Rene

Rene — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:40:36 +0000

thanks this help me a lot