Hi, I am trying to boot a liveCD thats on my hard disc ...is there a way of doing this using lilo ? reason well rather than keep burning to CD then testing I want to be able to make changes then test by booting to liveCD.... Thanks in advance Dave T..
David Templer wrote:> Hi, > > I am trying to boot a liveCD thats on my hard disc ...is there a way of > doing this using lilo ? > > reason well rather than keep burning to CD then testing I want to be > able to make changes then test by booting to liveCD.... > > Thanks in advance >If it's on a partition on your hard disk then you should be able to use whatever you want (LILO, grub, extlinux, ...) to boot it. Of course, you need your livecd to mount the partition rather than the CD. If it's in a file it's harder. You'd need to break out the kernel, and use a custom initrd to set up a loopback mount to the image file. Not very hard, if you're comfortable with initrd/initramfs hacking. Incidentally, in my opinion any good livecd should also work over the network, via NFS. A lot of the modifications you'd need to do to support the above are the same class of mods you need to be able to network boot your livecd. -hpa
Hi Is it possible to emulate isolinux so I can boot a linux such as Knoppix from hard disc via lilo..... If I understand it right isolinux is a boot loader in a similar way to lilo/grub can I use lilo (or hack isolinux) to do what I want ? or maybe use syslinux I just want to be able to remaster live cd form hard drive ... & then test by booting it from hard drive .. As yet I have had little or no success Any help would be grateful Dave T. (searching the web (google.com/linux) for the answer)
Obtain the Knoppix ISO file and see for yourself. The ISO file contains: *Isolinux *Linux *InitRD (using GNU components, I guess..) *Compressed CDROM file (ZISOFS filesystem). This is the file called KNOPPIX. You need to store all components on harddisk (kernel, initrd, KNOPPIX file), then boot kernel/initrd through your bootmanager on harddisk. The initrd will mount the KNOPPIX file, and then you've booted KNOPPIX succesfully. See www.knoppix.net for FAQs etc. Bernd ---------------------------------------------------------------- Op deze e-mail zijn de volgende voorwaarden van toepassing: http://www.fontys.nl/disclaimer The above disclaimer applies to this e-mail message. ----------------------------------------------------------------