Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 07:00:29 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote:
>
> > menuentry "jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst" {
> > loopback loop (hd1,msdos1)/boot/isos/debian-jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst.iso
> > linux (loop)/install.386/vmlinuz
> > initrd (loop)/install.386/initrd.gz
> > }
>
> > It would be nice (and might help the OP) if you reported what happens
> > and declared yourself a believer. :)
>
> Assuming
>
> 1. you have grub-imageboot and syslinux-common packages installed --
> [that will put memdisk into /boot]
> 2. The netinst iso is in images directory
> 3. sda7 is root
Thank you for the detail.
> After that this stanza starts the debian installer alright
>
> menuentry "Bootable Netinst ISO Image: Debian" {
> insmod part_msdos
> insmod ext2
> set root='hd0,msdos7'
> linux16 /boot/memdisk iso
> initrd16 /boot/images/debian-7.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso
> }
>
> Does it complete??
> No idea.
> I dont have a free machine (or time) to try out
This is a different method from using grub's loopback. However, it will
still fail at the 'Detect and mount CD-ROM' stage and for the same
reason: the netinst image does not contain loop.ko.
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