Thanks! Lisi
On Sunday 10 February 2013 19:28:26 Kind Soul wrote: > On Sun 10 Feb 2013 at 10:18:59 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Could some kind soul explain to me why Long Wind (Long Wind himself, or > > someone else who understands) doesn't just install it and then sort GRUB > > out? > > Could we do this in the context of a Debian ISO, the i386 one, say? The > ISO contains a kernel and an initrd. The ISO also has a bootloader, > which happens to be syslinux but it could easily be GRUB. The bootloader > starts the kernel and the initrd, which contains the installer > components. > > These are the three necessary components needed to start a succesful > install of Debian. The components can be on any medium - a CD, a USB > stick, a hard disk etc. They can even be divided between different > media. > > If the kernel and initrd are extracted from the ISO and put on a hard > disk the third essential component to start an installation, the > bootloader, is probably already present. All that has to be done is to > configure the existing GRUB to boot from vmlinuz and initrd.gz. The OS > can then be installed. > > So it is not a matter of install and sort out GRUB but of persuading > GRUB to boot a kernel and initrd so that the install can take place. > > This technique can be used with any Debian bootable ISO or one from > another distribution, as Long Wind has attempted. The trick is often > having to know what parameters, if any, need to be passed to the kernel > and what purpose the initrd serves. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201302102114.28048.lisi.re...@gmail.com
