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Re: Boot .iso with GRUB2



On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 14:02 +0200, Narcis Garcia wrote:
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> El 05/04/18 a les 11:16, Luca Boccassi ha escrit:
> > On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 10:01 +0200, Narcis Garcia wrote:
> > > Has anybody reached to boot a Debian ISO image?
> > > For example, installing GRUB2 on a USB stick with .iso files.
> > > 
> > > I've tried this with no luck*:*
> > > 
> > > submenu "debian-live-9.4.0-amd64-gnome.iso" {
> > >     iso_path="/debian-live-9.4.0-amd64-gnome.iso"
> > >     search --set=root --file $iso_path
> > >     loopback --delete loop
> > >     loopback loop $iso_path
> > >     root=(loop)
> > >     menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux Live (kernel 4.9.0-6-amd64)
> > > [grub]" {
> > >       linux  /live/vmlinuz-4.9.0-6-amd64 boot=live components
> > > "${loopback}"
> > >       initrd /live/initrd.img-4.9.0-6-amd64
> > >     }
> > > }
> > > 
> > > Results in*:*
> > > 
> > > [...] ... mounted filesystem...
> > > [...] random: crng init done
> > > Busybox ...
> > > (initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system
> > 
> > How are you installing the ISO on the USB stick? Did you build the
> > image yourself, if not where is it from?
> > 
> 
> Original .ISOs from Debian torrent downloads*.*
> $ cp debian-live-9.4.0-amd64-gnome.iso /media/user/MyStick
> $ grub-install "--root-directory=/media/user/MyStick" /dev/sdX

Why not just dd'ing? dd if=debian-live-9.4.0-amd64-gnome.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M
(careful to pick the right sdX...)

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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