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From: "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@mm-sol.com>
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Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Booting LiveCD iso from hard drive with GRUB legacy
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 18:11:13 +0300
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Hi,=20

>=20
> On Saturday 18 May 2013 10:08:51 tastytea wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 May 2013 09:15:44 +0100
> >
> > Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Is there a way of achieving this?
> >
> > Hi,
> > Maybe it works with chainloader?
> > See "info grub" for more information.
>=20
> Thanks, but I don't know if there is a way to point grub legacy to a
> particular partition, other than boot, to select an ISO from it.  My =
/boot
> partition is not large enough for a LiveDVD ISO file.  Plus, I'm not =
sure that
> GRUB legacy can mount an ISO as a loopback device.
>=20
> When I tried:
> =
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> root (hd0,10)
> makeactive
> chainloader /KNOPPIX_V7.0.5DVD-2012-12-21-EN.iso
> =
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>=20
> I got:  Error 12, no suitable device found (or similar).

I do have following in my grub/menu.lst and it is working fine.

title PC-Doctor DOS
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memdisk iso
initrd /boot/pcdoctor.iso

This is sys-boot/grub 0.97-r12

Regards,
Ivan

>=20
> --
> Regards,
> Mick