Package: debian-live
Severity: normal
Unlike other live isos (ubuntu, fedora, grml, system rescue), Debian-live isos
will not boot on a multiboot usb drive using grub2. This is well documented
from internet where every Debian help group reports this fact. It is quite
frustrating (and time-consuming) not being able to boot Debian-live isos (6.0.3
-live-amd64-desktop.iso, 6.0.3-live-i386-desktop.iso), while live isos from
other linux distributions can readily boot.
Debian live begins to boot via grub2, but half-way through boot, it hangs for
two/three minutes and then leaves grub, stating that live iso could not be
found.
The following is my grub2 menu entry (one of about a hundred that I wrote):
menuentry "debian 64 bit live" {
loopback loop /boot/Debian/debian-live-6.0.3-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso
linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz live-media-path=/boot/Debian/debian-
live-6.0.3-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso --
initrd (loop)/live/initrd.img
I have another similar menu entry for i386 (which I tweaked repeatedly to no
avail)
I could probably boot a live Lenny iso but I don't want to use an older version
of Debian.
Debian-live works well if I copy usb-hdd img to a usb drive (and persistence
works flawlessly -- better, in fact, than Ubuntu 10.10 or 11.10). The hybrid
iso does not work with persistence (I cannot create live-rw partition --
grparted, fdisk do not recognize that an OS has been installed; they only see
"unallocated space"). But Debian is unbootable in a multiboot system.
Why should Ubuntu, a Debian derivitive, be superior to Debian-live at
multibooting? Why should other distributions make a better live iso than
Debian?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39.4-custom (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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