boot direct from an iso

[ago]

Hi Scott,

Yes there are hooks in gutsy too, but do not remember the exact syntax
on top of my head. A trick is to stop the boot process with
break=mount and look into /scripts/casper-bottom. Or look into the
older branch of lupin. I will be back tonight and will provide more
info.

Ps I have been looking for someone with mac experience to help with a
wubi port (mubi). In particular it would help if you could provide
more info on the boot process (assuming your experiences with atv can
be extended to other macs).

Ago

On 5/13/08, Scott D. Davilla <davilla at 4pi.com> wrote:
> >Scott, apologies if my first email wasn't very clear, I hope that the
> >second one I sent was more helpful. I am glad to see you found your
> >way through, and I certainly agree that the documentation on the lupin
> >hooks should be improved (mostly my fault). I was hoping to provide
> >the same hooks also in the alternate initrd and was waiting for an
> >harmonization before writing the docs.
>
> Yes, the second one gave me the hints for where to look for the
> proper boot params.
>
> This seems to work great for Ubuntu 8.04 and derivatives.
>
> Is there something similar for 7.10. I tried kubuntu 7.10 and neither
> "iso-scan" nor "find-iso" result in a boot. Unfortunately, kubuntu
> 7.10 does not include fbcon/vesafb in the initrd so I don't have
> console framebuffer output and can't see the errors.
>
> I'm trying kubuntu 7.10 because LinuxMCE is based off that and
> several users want to try LinuxMCE. Can't do the alternate install
> because the text based installer wants to reference "/cdrom" for the
> install payload.
>
>