Booting from hard disk
Amadeus W.M.
amadeus84 at verizon.net
Mon Dec 14 03:17:28 UTC 2009
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:54:06 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is it possible to boot the KDE Live CD from the hard disk (from the ISO
> file), by adding an appropriate stanza to grub.conf ? If so, what would
> be an appropriate stanza?
>
> --
> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Put the kernel and the ramdisk from the F12 iso into /boot:
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop Fedora-12.iso someDirectory
cd someDirectory
cp isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-F12
cp isolinux/initrd.img /boot/initrd-F12.img
You can use whatever names you want for vmlinuz and initrd, but whatever
you use must go into the grub stanza.
Copy the images directory to disk
cp -r images /some/data/partition
Both the images directory and the Fedora iso must be on a partition that
won't be formatted during installation.
Cut and paste any Fedora stanza from grub.conf and edit that to point to
the F12 vmlinuz and initrd and add "askmethod" on the kernel line:
title Fedora (2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-F12 ro root=UUID=343fedb3
d301-4615-99b3-a0dec40fa632 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rhgb quiet linux askmethod
initrd /initrd-F12.img
Save and write grub to disk:
/sbin/grub-install /dev/sda
Boot.
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