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CD-ROM booting is a bit of a hack.

Booting from CD-ROM will cause the bios to re-route floppy accesses
to special area (file) on the cd. (it can also emulate a harddisk)
I don't think Grub can do this.

For the details take a look at the El Torito specification.
<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.phoenix.com/resources/specs-cdrom.pdf";>http://www.phoenix.com/resources/specs-cdrom.pdf</a>

	Stephan


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