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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:48:11
Message-Id: 201203282345.40843.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? by Neil Bothwick
1 On Wednesday 28 March 2012 22:47:09 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > Since someone has already asked about this off-list, the method is
4 > described on sysrescd.org and involves a GRUB menu entry like
5 >
6 > echo "Adding: System Rescue CD"
7 > menuentry "System Rescue CD" {
8 > set sysresiso=/systemrescuecd-x86-2.5.1.iso
9 > loopback loop $sysresiso
10 > linux (loop)/isolinux/rescue64 rootpass=whatever setkmap=uk
11 > isoloop=$sysresiso initrd (loop)/isolinux/initram.igz
12 > }
13
14 Am I right in thinking that this only works with GRUB-2, not the legacy
15 GRUB? I'm not ready yet to go to the next generation of GRUB.
16
17 --
18 Rgds
19 Peter

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