Re: debian-live cheatcodes?
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this is the full report of my failed attempts to use "bootfrom"
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user@debian:~$ sudo su -
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debian:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hdb: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116301 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000adda4
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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/dev/hdb7 89290 116000 13462344 83 Linux
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debian:~# uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Jan 10 18:29:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
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debian:~# dmesg | grep -i live
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: initrd=/live/initrd1.img boot=live
union=aufs bootfrom=/dev/hdb7/debk-i386.iso BOOT_IMAGE=/live/vmlinuz1
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and I had the same results when I tried live-media
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debian:~# dmesg | grep live
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: initrd=/live/initrd1.img boot=live
union=aufs live-media=/dev/hdb7/debk-i386.iso
BOOT_IMAGE=/live/vmlinuz1
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debian:~# mkdir /media/hdb7
debian:~# mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb7 /media/hdb7
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debian:~# ls -l /media/hdb7
total 677672
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 693231616 2009-05-11 22:19 debk-i386.iso
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2007-12-28 04:36 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-05-11 18:38 tmp
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debian:~# md5sum -b /media/hdb7/debk-i386.iso
acfe503b02680cc2fdeea3a2bcc24a6f */media/hdb7/debk-i386.iso
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which is the same as listed in
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debian:~# wget http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/iso-cd/MD5SUMS
--2009-05-11 22:50:29--
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/iso-cd/MD5SUMS
Resolving cdimage.debian.org... 130.239.18.173, 130.239.18.137,
130.239.18.163, ...
Connecting to cdimage.debian.org|130.239.18.173|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1796 (1.8K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `MD5SUMS'
100%[===============================================================================================================================>]
1,796 --.-K/s in 0.003s
2009-05-11 22:50:35 (573 KB/s) - `MD5SUMS' saved [1796/1796]
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debian:~# cat MD5SUMS | grep acfe503b02680cc2fdeea3a2bcc24a6f
acfe503b02680cc2fdeea3a2bcc24a6f debian-live-500-i386-kde-desktop.iso
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How can you use "bootfrom" with debian-live?
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thanks
lbrtchx
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