On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:14 PM, step21 <f...@terrorpop.de> wrote:

> 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)

on this system you don't need any additional command. Just load kernel from
loopback

> 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
> >>
> >>
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