Re: [gentoo-user] Booting LiveCD iso from hard drive with GRUB legacy

[Mick]

On Monday 20 May 2013 15:25:17 Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:

> > Unfortunately, it can only boot some images it seems, or it can only boot
> > them
> > if they have been stored in /boot.  I copied memdisk from the KNOPPIX DVD
> > to
> > my /boot, grub finds it and runs it, but then it fails to load the
> > Knoppix ISO
> >
> > with this error:
> >   MEMDISK: No ramdisk image specified!
>
> Too bad.  I don't know.  Have you tried this one:
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=52419

Thanks Ivan, yes it can be made to boot from a hard drive if the iso is 
unpacked and GRUB pointed to the kernel and initrd images, which should also 
be saved on the drive.  I was looking for a way to boot directly the iso file 
itself.  It seems that the solution for some ISOs with which memdisk won't 
work, is to use GRUB 2.

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Regards,
Mick