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Rooney
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 Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:05 pm Post subject: grub booting iso's ??? is it possibel |
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I want grub to mount and boot from an iso i have my working gentoo install but i have iso's for like gentoo-game-cd and knoppix and other which i dont want to install just be able to select an option from grub and it will mount the iso in a directory and boot from it.
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geordie
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
I don't think so because grub looks for a system map and kernel and, I think,
iso's go from an autostart script.
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ewan.paton
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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i would have just let the bios boot the cd since you would need to reboot anyway but isnt it just an option of setting it to boot off hdc0,0 or some such depending on your hardware
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Rooney
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| ewan.paton wrote: | | i would have just let the bios boot the cd since you would need to reboot anyway but isnt it just an option of setting it to boot off hdc0,0 or some such depending on your hardware |
this would work but it need it to mount the iso first to be able to access the kernel :d |
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BlinkEye
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any solution? i don't have any drives on my laptop, this is why i've installed grub on an usb stick, i'm currently creating my own livecd.iso with catalyst and i must figure out a way on how to boot that *.iso!
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Rooney
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| BlinkEye wrote: | | any solution? i don't have any drives on my laptop, this is why i've installed grub on an usb stick, i'm currently creating my own livecd.iso with catalyst and i must figure out a way on how to boot that *.iso! |
no sorry , but if you find out pleasze let me know |
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BlinkEye
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if you understand german, there's a very interesting project running: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=178887
i'll let you know of my progress
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| You might fined this interesting. |
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BlinkEye
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thanks a lot! i indeed find that VERY interesting.
but i must get some sleep before i'll try it out.
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