 | | | Grub issue | Grub issue 2003-07-13 - By A.J. Werkman
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While going through some grub-docs I found a grub command "device ". It
should be used to map a drive to something else, e.g. a file that would
then be mapped as a drive. This is parallel to the loopback mechanism of Linux.
I then got the idea that it should be possible with this to boot from a
file-image of a boot diskette. But trying this I got stuck because the
device option is only available in the grub-program not in the boot shell.
Now two questions come up:
- What is the use of the device command to map a file as a drive?
- Can grub boot from a file-image of a bootdisk as if the diskimage was on
a disk in the first disk-drive?
Regards, Koos.
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