boot direct from an iso

[Mario Limonciello]

(``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
> Olá Scott e a todos.
>
> On Monday 12 May 2008 17:48:05 Scott D. Davilla wrote:
>   
>> I've seen references to this but have been unable to get it to work 
>> and am wondering if it's even possible.
>>
>> This would be to boot the LiveCD using a iso instead of the extracted 
>> contents from an iso. The references that I have seen are "find_iso=" 
>> and "iso=". Obviously this mean that the correct kernel and initramfs 
>> would need to be extracted for the iso in the first place.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Scott
>>
>>     
>
> If you find out how, let me know, because ever since early alpha gutsy's, I cant do it.
> I remember trying to do it on those alpha gutsy's isos, and got all those framebuffer problems, and couldn't finish my install.
> I tried again on hardy alpha isos, but the hd-boot installer was unable to find the iso, even though it was on the root a specially prepared partition.
>
>   
I saw some references to this in the casper source, but nothing
definitive.  Do you recall what Alpha they stopped showing up?  We can
look at bzr history to see what happened.

-- 
Mario Limonciello
superm1 at ubuntu.com

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