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Is there a method by which one could boot an ISO image from a flash drive with syslinux? -- Dimeneira aka Dime

...RUB 2 configurations. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/ISOBoot/Examples I would like to clarify command line parameters like the following a bit more for the purpose of booting ISO images better. http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=MEMDISK#-_Passing_ISO_parameter_to_the_kernel 1. bootfrom 2. findiso 3. iso-scan/filename Which Linux variants do support them nowadays directly? How are the chances to specify predictable (persistent) names there instead of ?old style? device names? https://superuser.com/questions/275135/linux-changing-device-names-in-dev-causes-problems-on-boot htt...

.../mnt/sdb1 xxx/extlinux361/mbr# cat mbr.bin > /dev/sdb mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 edit and save a /mnt/sdb1/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf (last version) : default liveusb prompt 1 timeout 50 label liveusb kernel ../vmlinuz append livecd=../livecd initrd=../initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 vga=788 keyb=us bootfrom=/dev/sda1 changes=/dev/sda1/changes fromusb edit: *livecd= , *root= , *bootfrom= , **changes= , **fromusb comes from syslinux.cfg and *partly worked in ext3 different commandline-tryouts , but all ended shortly after the loopfile It feels like this extlinux.conf is kinda right way - but can i g...

...://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/ISOBoot/Examples > > I would like to clarify command line parameters like the following a bit more > for the purpose of booting ISO images better. > http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=MEMDISK#-_Passing_ISO_parameter_to_the_kernel > > 1. bootfrom > > 2. findiso > > 3. iso-scan/filename > > Which Linux variants do support them nowadays directly? > MEMDISK is intended to be used for operating systems which don't have a direct way to boot. This looks to me as a way for Grub2 to access the internals of an .iso image a...