Re: GRUB2 facility to boot ISOs?

[Frombenny <frombenny@gmail.com>]

Here's an example to launch an iso of gpartedlivecd from Grub2. I always 
add it on my 40_custom file :

menuentry "ISO Live - GParted Live" {
insmod loopback
insmod iso9660
set isofile="/iso/gparted-live-0.5.2-1.iso"
loopback loop (hd0,5)$isofile
set gfxpayload=800x600x16, 800x600
linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz locale=fr_FR keyb=fr console-setup/layoutcode=fr gl_kbd=fr gl_lang=fr_FR gl_numlk=off gl_batch boot=live union=aufs noswap noprompt ip=frommedia toram=filesystem.squashfs findiso=$isofile
initrd (loop)/live/initrd.img
}

There are others examples on this page : 
http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/tutoriel/grub2_lancer_des_images_iso

You can use the soft here : http://liveusb.info/ to launch one or more 
iso(s) from an USB key.

In short, Grub2 have made a great job yet.. Now to spread it, it depends 
on linux distributions to implement it in their isos.

Benoit

Le 18/05/2010 09:12, Philip Rhoades a écrit :
> 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.