boot direct from an iso
Scott D. Davilla
davilla at 4pi.com
Tue May 13 16:32:09 BST 2008
>>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.
>
There's a "bootfrom=" boot param in casper. It's the same as
"live-media". Seems to want a device, not a device/file path.
I see in google searchs knoppix refs to "bootfrom=/dev/sdb1/*.iso"
but that might be knoppix specific. There's another casper param the
can specify an offset where an iso can be located. The casper script
does a losetup using this so If you make a partition, then dd the iso
to the partition, that might work. but it seems silly. If I go to the
trouble of making a partition, I'll just copy the contents of the iso
into it (remembering to copy ".disk") and skip the middleman.
An "apt-get source casper" in Mythbuntu gusty show most all
command-line params stripped from the script that parses the
command-line params. The casper script still references these params
but without them being parsed from the command-line, no joy in gusty.
I still have to check hardys casper.
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