[ltp] Use LOADLIN to boot a CDROM

[Richard Griffith]

Adam Southerland wrote:
> I'm looking to see if there is a way to use LOADLIN to boot 
> sbootmgr.dsk... Or simply, use it to be able to boot a CDROM Drive...
> 
> By this, I don't mean to boot an image on the CDROM to start an install, 
> I mean a generic way to boot CDRoms from LOADLIN.
> 
> Can I boot sbootmgr.dsk from LOADLIN? If so how? or does anyone have any 
> other ideas? I really want to be able to boot from CDROM with the least 
> configuration possible...  Can Partition Magic or anything else 
> accomplish this when my Laptop won't support booting to a CDROM?
> 
> Thinkpad: 760XL

Adam,

It sounds like you are looking at this backwards from the path of least 
resistance. If you install Smart Boot Manager on the MBR, you can then 
use it to boot CD's, DOS or Windows, and Linux too, if you install a 
Linux loader to the first sector of your root partition, instead of to 
the MBR. Is there a reason you are trying to bring loadlin into the mix?

-Richard