Lose GRUB and boot from CD

[SlimPickens 0]

Greetings. Although a noob to FC3, I recall booting RedHat from diskette and not installing any loaders. I've looked around and it seems you can't boot FC3 from diskette(?). So I want to make a bootable CD that will boot my kernal and leave Windoze out of it. As I've already installed FC3, I'll have to clean up the references in boot.ini. I'm running WinXP Pro SP2. I have linux installed and runable on a separate harddisk. My question is: How do I build the bootable CD (or diskette) and forego GRUB entirely? TIA. Regards.

[matttah 0]

Now I havn't touched any of the fedoras in ages..but as I recall in their start menu under system they have something like make bootable disk..or something like that...also in the install you can make bootable disks so you dont' have to have the boot manager loaded....then to rid the grub, I believe what you can do, is go into windows and go to boot.ini setup and do check bootable paths(it doesn't consider/see linux as one) and it will kill the grub menu and just boot into the windows, I believe.

Daum

[danleff 0]

There are a couple of options.

 

If you want, you can boot Fedora from the Windows boot.ini file. As

matttah said, if you configured boot.ini to boot Fedora as an option, just removing the line pointing to the linux bootloader will do it. It's much easier in linux to edit this file. In Windows, you need to login as administrator (rights) to do edit this file.

 

When you install Fedora, you can choose to install Grub on a floppy, rather than the hard drive.

 

Fedora also has a graphical bootloader utility. If you install the system-config-boot package (either installed during the installation of Fedora), or though Fedora's package management utility, then you can edit or change the bootloader options. You then invoke the command in a terminal window (as root user);

 

system-config-boot.

 

Finally, if Grub is installed on the system, you can use the grub-install command to tell it to make a bootable floppy.