From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "error: invalid magic number" when booting from ISO loopback
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:30:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091031173046.GA25795@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257008516.3149.45.camel@ron-desktop>
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 06:01:56PM +0100, Ron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was playing around with Grub2 (latest svn version) and its loopback
> feature and had some problems to boot an ISO. The ISO file is the 32Bit
> version of Ubuntu 9.10 which is located on a 8GB USB flash drive with
> one FAT32 partition. I've tried to boot it with the following menu
> entry:
>
> menuentry "Ubuntu" {
> set isofile="/boot/isos/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso"
>
> loopback loop $isofile
> linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile
> quiet splash noprompt --
> initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
> }
>
> This entry fails silently and when the commands were executed one by one
> the linux command shows the error message "error: invalid magic number".
This error means vmlinuz wasn't read correctly.
This could be either a problem in loopback/iso9660 or a problem in the
partition that contains ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.
Can you figure out which applies? For example, if you put a physical CD
with ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso in the drive and access it from
GRUB (via ata.mod), are you able to load Linux this way?
--
Robert Millan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-31 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-31 17:01 "error: invalid magic number" when booting from ISO loopback Ron
2009-10-31 17:30 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-10-31 18:55 ` Slow grub boot when /boot/grub is not on first partition Simon Wagner
2009-10-31 19:03 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-11-16 7:30 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-10-31 23:50 ` "error: invalid magic number" when booting from ISO loopback Ron
2009-11-01 7:53 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-11-01 14:37 ` Ron
2011-01-05 13:43 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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