[ not subscribed to -boot@, please CC if you drop -devel@ ] Heya *,
I am using an usb-stick as a boot-and-repear-everything tool. The current setup contains syslinux booting Grml, Squeeze D-I and Testing D-I in 32 and 64bit → 6 entries, hand-crafted into a syslinux.cfg. With yesterdays Grml release, I thought I could spend an hour or so automating and improving my setup. Step 1 was to replace the two Grmls with grml96 and booting it via Grub's loopback instead of syslinux [1]. Step 2 would have been doing the same with Debian, but as Debian doesn't have the alternative grub boot grml has, I though I just could loopback the iso, load kernel and initrd from it and rely on the iso-scan/load-iso stuff to find the iso again. Sadly, this does not work, as the initrd of the ISO does not contain the iso-scan/load-iso like the hd-media [2]. Getting the hd-media initrd and using this works of course. I wonder if it would be possible to add iso-scan/load-iso to the CD-images and use it in case no cdrom could be found, removing the need for a separate hd-media (and allowing creating of custom setups where a dd of the iso to the usb-stick is not enough w/o downloading more than just the iso). Regards Evgeni [1] http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Loopback.cfg [2] http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-amd64/current/images/MANIFEST.udebs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ef5b96c.30...@debian.org
