Amadeus W.M. 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? > 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. Note that I asked about booting from the KDE Live CD, not the Fedora DVD. The KDE Live CD does not seem to have an images directory. > 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 As a matter of interest, which root=UUID=... do you choose? If I boot from the isolinux/vmlinuz0 and isolinux/initrd0.img from the KDE Live CD , the machine boots into the system on the root= partition; if I specify root=/dev/sda6 , which is the partition for an fc11 system, the machine boots into fc11, though with an fc12 kernel. If I specify root=/dev/sda3 , containing an fc10 system, it boots into fc10, the system on that partition. -- 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
