# (find-es "grub")
htmlize {Edrx's Grub page} {
[P This page is a close friend of my [L hurd.html Hurd page].]
[P My [ES grub e-scripts on Grub] and my [ES oskit e-scripts on
OSKit].]
[P [GRUBNODE {Top} Grub info docs]]
[P [MBNODE {Top} Info docs on the Multiboot specification]]
[HLIST1 {Grub:}
[LR http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/]
[LR http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.en.html]
[LR http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-grub%40gnu.org/]
[LR http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-grub%40gnu.org/msg01975.html]
[LR http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-grub%40gnu.org/msg01015.html]
[LR http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-grub%40gnu.org/msg01026.html]
]
[P A medium or long-term project: I'm trying to make Grub able to boot
floppy images stored in a HD\; maybe it is just a matter of writing
a simple multiboot-compliant program that will take the floppy image
as a module (search for \"the `mods' field\" [MBNODE {Boot
information format} here]) and then treat the data in the module as
a floppy image freshly-read from a bootable (=\"El Torito\") CD\;
most OSs let their installation floppies be placed in El Torito CDs,
so this will give us a better way to install new OSs, as floppies
almost always have bad sectors (at least on my drive!), burning CDs
is expensive (you need a burner plus the media), and ordering CDs
can be expensive too, as [LR http://www.cheapbytes.com/ CheapBytes]
and similar companies can't ship NetBSD and OpenBSD outside the US.]
[HLIST1 {El Torito:}
[L http://www.phoenix.com/products/specs-cdrom.pdf]
[L http://www.cdpage.com/Compact_Disc_Variations/bootspec.pdf]
]
[HLIST1 {Programs that may be able to boot from floppy images:}
[L http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/]
[L http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot/]
]
}