From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D556A1381F3 for ; Mon, 20 May 2013 14:23:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9E39E08F1; Mon, 20 May 2013 14:23:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from extserv.mm-sol.com (ns.mm-sol.com [213.240.235.226]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7713BE0798 for ; Mon, 20 May 2013 14:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from CIIVANO (unknown [172.18.0.3]) by extserv.mm-sol.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 52A2AC648 for ; Mon, 20 May 2013 17:23:17 +0300 (EEST) From: "Ivan T. Ivanov" To: References: <201305180916.19740.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201305181725.19808.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <002701ce552a$4a76cc50$df6464f0$@mm-sol.com> <201305201416.42131.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201305201416.42131.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Booting LiveCD iso from hard drive with GRUB legacy Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 17:25:17 +0300 Message-ID: <006601ce5565$d9f234b0$8dd69e10$@mm-sol.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Thread-index: AQH4ld+YHymscQ02TZwVdX+u3LBQ3QI8DLs8ApUWFT8BWK5C8JiIRs/w Content-language: en-us X-Archives-Salt: 84ba3e57-c76c-4418-a246-831be3208abd X-Archives-Hash: 113b77709f766169bd4fd4a4235b6c19 =20 > This is how I specified it: >=20 > title Knoppix ISO > root (hd0,9) > kernel /boot/isolinux/memdisk iso raw > initrd (hd0,10)/KNOPPIX_V7.0.5DVD-2012-12-21-EN.iso >=20 > Where (hd0,9) is my /boot partition and (hd0,10) is a large partition = that > contains various images. >=20 >=20 > > > Trying to understand your grub entry - what is /boot/memdisk? = Have > you > > > built > > > some eltorito image for your purpose? How does it work? > > > > I am not sure how memdisk is working :-), it is part of = sys-boot/syslinux > > My understanding is that grub is loading memdisk as a kernel/os with = an > > option 'iso' and initrd option specifies what to mount as a rootfs?? >=20 > Yes, that's right: >=20 > http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK >=20 >=20 > 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: >=20 > MEMDISK: No ramdisk image specified! Too bad. I don't know. Have you tried this one: = http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=3D5&t=3D52419 Regards, Ivan > >=20 > -- > Regards, > Mick