Re: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:18:21 +0930 Tim wrote: > Surely it ought to be possible. It is possible in many other distros (like the ubuntu example I gave earlier), but once grub has done it's thing, the linux kernel needs to know how to keep going, which means loop mount and squashfs support in the in

Re: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 23 August 2016, Tom Horsley sent: > I mean boot the livecd ISO file directly off hard disk. Surely it ought to be possible. GRUB can do a PXE boot, that's just the OS tree from some other source. Perhaps there might be an intervening step that mounts the ISO, but lets you

Re: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Philip Rhoades
Tom, On 2016-08-24 00:02, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:50:01 +1000 From: Philip Rhoades Subject: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk To: Community support for Fedora users Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed People

Re: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:15:52 + Personal (open) wrote: > ALL Current livecds boot with grub support. Do you perhaps mean boot > from hdd (without grub or from grub to the hdd directly ? I mean boot the livecd ISO file directly off hard disk. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Personal (open)
On 23.08.2016 14:01, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:50:01 +1000 > Philip Rhoades wrote: > >> Whether I use a GRUB2 configuration to boot from the XFCE LiveCD iso > > I don't know if anyone ever tweaked fedora live cds to have > the required support to boot via grub. I know at on

Re: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:50:01 +1000 Philip Rhoades wrote: > Whether I use a GRUB2 configuration to boot from the XFCE LiveCD iso I don't know if anyone ever tweaked fedora live cds to have the required support to boot via grub. I know at one time I read they wouldn't work that way. I do have sever

Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, Whether I use a GRUB2 configuration to boot from the XFCE LiveCD iso or extract the files and not have to use the loopback option - I get the same problem - the boot process gets past linux and initrd and then has problems ie: [3.141117] localhost kernel: clocksource: tsc: mask: