Re: iso to hdd booting.
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 08:08:00PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good time of the day.
thanks
> I'm trying to transfer a bootable image to a HDD - to boot from it as
> if from the image, this way:
>
> cat ./boot.iso > /dev/sdb
> sync
It may create a hidden partition , if iam correct.
I mean HIDDEN NTFS like that ... cfdisk may show it as sdb1.
> Then I try to boot from it in KVM having specified at command line:
> -hda /dev/sdb -boot c
>
> but it does not boot.
may be since the /dev/sdb1 is the one which contains files.
by the way.. any errors..
> Using fdisk shows me partitioning at all - that i suppose should not to
> be.
>
> Is it workable way i have undertaken? Or I can achieve it only
> installing a linux on HDD and then make it loading from its boot loader
> having transferred the image to a partition (cat ./boot.iso
> > /dev/sdb1)?
About KVM I do not know. But the other part may work.
/Jeffrin.
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software engineer.
department of computer science
rajagiri school of engineering and technology.
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