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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@...>
Subject: Re: Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:45:40 +0100
On Wednesday 28 March 2012 22:47:09 Neil Bothwick wrote:

> Since someone has already asked about this off-list, the method is
> described on sysrescd.org and involves a GRUB menu entry like
> 
> echo "Adding: System Rescue CD"
> menuentry "System Rescue CD" {
>    set sysresiso=/systemrescuecd-x86-2.5.1.iso
>    loopback loop $sysresiso
>    linux (loop)/isolinux/rescue64 rootpass=whatever setkmap=uk
> isoloop=$sysresiso initrd (loop)/isolinux/initram.igz
> }

Am I right in thinking that this only works with GRUB-2, not the legacy 
GRUB? I'm not ready yet to go to the next generation of GRUB.

-- 
Rgds
Peter


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