Easy WORKAROUND for CDROM Boot Image insanity

[John Dee]

I've got a fun way to do it.

It requires a working installation of linux though.
I don't have a cdrom on my linux box.

download boot.iso
mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -o loop boot.iso /mnt/iso
cp /mnt/iso/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-fedora-install
cp /mnt/iso/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/initrd-fedora-install.img
cat >> /boot/grub/grub.conf <<EOF
title Fedora Install
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-fedora-install ramdisk_size=8192
initrd /boot/initrd-fedora-install.img
EOF

Change drive info as necessary to reflect your drive.

You should have on reboot an option for "Fedora Install" in your grub 
menu. Just select that, and should take you right into the install :)


sean bruno wrote:

> Thanks for working on this one!
> 
> It's good to know that others are looking at it, however I am more
> interested in the causal failure here...
> 
> The CD can be booted on some CD readers, but not others.
> 
> This is what I would like to have solved.
> 
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 11:49, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> 
>>Hi all!
>>
>>I had the same problem regarding a non-bootable CD1.
>>
>>But I discovered a workaround:
>>
>>* burn boot.iso (~4.2Megs) on a CD
>>* run that CD and at the boot prompt insert FC2test2 CD1
>>   and type:
>>
>>/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192
>>
>>That worked for me so far and I'm now at the GUI welcome screen!
>>Off installing now ;-)
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Hannes.
>>
>>
>>
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