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From: "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Booting LiveCD iso from hard drive with GRUB legacy
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 15:09:28
Message-Id: 003a01ce53d9$f06b8530$d1428f90$@mm-sol.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting LiveCD iso from hard drive with GRUB legacy by Mick
1 Hi,
2
3 >
4 > On Saturday 18 May 2013 10:08:51 tastytea wrote:
5 > > On Sat, 18 May 2013 09:15:44 +0100
6 > >
7 > > Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
8 > > > Hi All,
9 > > >
10 > > > Is there a way of achieving this?
11 > >
12 > > Hi,
13 > > Maybe it works with chainloader?
14 > > See "info grub" for more information.
15 >
16 > Thanks, but I don't know if there is a way to point grub legacy to a
17 > particular partition, other than boot, to select an ISO from it. My /boot
18 > partition is not large enough for a LiveDVD ISO file. Plus, I'm not sure that
19 > GRUB legacy can mount an ISO as a loopback device.
20 >
21 > When I tried:
22 > ================================================
23 > root (hd0,10)
24 > makeactive
25 > chainloader /KNOPPIX_V7.0.5DVD-2012-12-21-EN.iso
26 > ================================================
27 >
28 > I got: Error 12, no suitable device found (or similar).
29
30 I do have following in my grub/menu.lst and it is working fine.
31
32 title PC-Doctor DOS
33 root (hd0,0)
34 kernel /boot/memdisk iso
35 initrd /boot/pcdoctor.iso
36
37 This is sys-boot/grub 0.97-r12
38
39 Regards,
40 Ivan
41
42 >
43 > --
44 > Regards,
45 > Mick

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