It is very convenient to be able to boot floppy disk images or CD images directly from Grub without having to write the images to their associated media \u2026 not least because floppy disk drives are getting quite long in the tooth. And in fact I haven’t had a floppy disk drive installed for a while now. As it happens it is very easy to do :-<\/p>\n
sudo zsh\r\napt-get install grub-imageboot\r\nmkdir \/boot\/images\r\n# Move any images (CD or floppy) to \/boot\/images\r\n# With either the extension .img (for floppies) or .iso (for CDs)\r\nupdate-grub2<\/pre>\n\u2026 and if you use this to update your BIOS, it is worth writing down all the key settings\u00a0before<\/em> upgrading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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