Re: Contributing back: Using grub2 to boot CD-ROM images
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:01:35 -0500
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> In the past I've used the `grub-imageboot` package for that.
Aha! Thank you.
Near as I can tell, somewhere along the line the kernel and initrd are
extracted from the (CD|DVD|diskette) image. My software doesn't even
require that. Grub will reach into an ISO for them at boot time if you
ask it politely.
On brief investigation, this seems to require a lot of undocumented
manual work to get things set up; I've automated a lot of that.
The package is rather sparse on documentation, though.
> AFAICT it requires you put the `.iso` files in `/boot/images/` which
> is impractical for large ISOs, so maybe you could try and contribute
> your code to that package.
Not required; one can change that in /etc/default/grub-imageboot. One
would have to in order to get the images onto their own isolated
partition, one of the things I've done.
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