Or maybe this makes it more clear: With wubi (which uses grub4dos) for example this only works, because the ubuntu installer and lateron the installed system provide additional software that enables the system to do so. (lupin/caspar) This only works if specifically supported by some iso, it will not work to boot isos in general.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Vladimir Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Usefulness of this is limited to situation where payload uses bios calls > which are quite few (dos and dos based tools, some booters). You can't boot > a modern OS this way: it will fail the millisecond OS switches to its own > drivers. Additionally to do such thing you need to leave kernel in memory. > Leaving kernel in memory can be useful in some situations but needs memory > restructuring. Follow parallel thread on moving kernel to high memory > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Chip Panarchy <forumanar...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> Please add support for booting to a .iso into GRUB2. >> >> More info: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5041 >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Panarchy >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
