Booting to CD and the handing off to HD

[Theodore K. Milbaugh]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:22:47 -0600, Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade at ub.edu.bz> wrote:
> Regarding booting to the CDROM or HD, I'm not sure I understand the
> difference between what you are saying and what I said in my previous
> reply.  How can the CDROM "boot" the machine to the HD?  If the machine
> reboots the BIOS will take control and boot the machine according to
> it's device priority.  If there is a bootable CD in the CDROM device,
> and the BIOS is set to boot to the CDROM first, how can the machine be
> made to boot the HD prior to the CDROM?  The only possible way I can
> think of would be to have the CDROM booted OS eject the CDROM tray
> before reboot, then have the HD booted OS close the CDROM tray again.
> 
> Nathan

The code on the CD can load the bootloader code from the HD, and execute it.
I know it is possible, because if you boot off of the SuSE 9.1
Installation CD, it has an option to boot to the HD, and it does work.