From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1OEKI6-0007Oh-Pb for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 06:44:50 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39202 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OEKI0-0007Lu-Ou for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 06:44:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEKHx-0006k2-0x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 06:44:44 -0400 Received: from 203-206-181-78.perm.iinet.net.au ([203.206.181.78]:42415 helo=prix.pricom.com.au) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEGyc-0005BH-El for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 03:12:31 -0400 Received: (qmail 18898 invoked from network); 18 May 2010 07:12:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO prix.pricom.com.au) (127.0.0.1) by prix.pricom.com.au with SMTP; 18 May 2010 07:12:17 -0000 Message-ID: <4BF23DD1.6090604@pricom.com.au> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 17:12:17 +1000 From: Philip Rhoades Organization: Pricom Pty Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100301 Fedora/3.0.3-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) Subject: GRUB2 facility to boot ISOs? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:44:48 -0000 People, I started this thread quite a while ago (I have asked LQ why it has another user's name on it): http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/booting-of-raw-iso-from-grub-lilo-though-preferably-grub-367901/ but haven't ever gotten a workable response. I realise that ISOs from different distros are set up differently but is it a feasible/desirable feature to think about for GRUB2? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au