Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote:
> 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.
Right. So it seems from
https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2013/09/msg00094.html
and your
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/12/msg01124.html
that debian installer cant loopmount whereas ubuntu can.
O well...
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