Re: Chainloadig from grub2 to isolinux

2014-07-21 Thread Raif S. Berent
> Debian has no provisions for booting iso images from a server. The regular live iso also fails to boot from HDD with loopback. As posted somewhere along the thread, it seems that debian's loopback kernel module must be extracted and placed on the HDD. Then one must interrupt the install, drop to

Re: Chainloadig from grub2 to isolinux

2014-07-08 Thread Raif S. Berent
Not to beat a dead horse, but I'd like to clarify a few issues that seem to be not working. 1. I compiled and installed Grub_trunk on an old laptop, then copied the debian.iso to a folder under (hd0,gpt*). Modified the grub.cfg and tried to use "syslinux_configfile -i (loop)/isolinux/isolinux.cfg

grub2 boot root-on-zfs errors

2013-08-30 Thread Raif S. Berent
My system is FreeBSD_9.2-stable_amd64_HDD-layout=GPT grub version=grub2-2.00_1, and grub is on its own partition (/boot/grub) zpool version: 5000, with root on the zpool FreeBSD's bootloader is able to boot this pool, while various grub2 attempts have failed. I think the reason is that grub2 has pr