On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:20:42 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm taking the liberty of re-posting this query, as there seemed some > problems with the previous posting, hopefully now resolved: > > Has anyone actually succeeded in booting Fedora-12 from the DVD ISO file > on the hard disk, by adding a stanza to grub.conf ? > > I carried out the following commands: ----------------------------- > [tim@alfred ~]$ sudo mkdir /mnt/Fedora [tim@alfred ~]$ sudo mount -o > loop Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/Fedora/ [tim@alfred ~]$ ls > /mnt/Fedora/isolinux/ boot.cat boot.msg grub.conf initrd.img > isolinux.bin isolinux.cfg splash.jpg TRANS.TBL vesamenu.c32 vmlinuz > [tim@alfred ~]$ ls /mnt/Fedora/images/ efiboot.img efidisk.img > install.img pxeboot README TRANS.TBL [tim@alfred ~]$ mkdir images > [tim@alfred ~]$ cp -a /mnt/Fedora/images/install.img images/ [tim@alfred > ~]$ sudo mkdir /boot/Fedora-12 [tim@alfred ~]$ sudo cp -a > /mnt/Fedora/isolinux/* /boot/Fedora-12/ ----------------------------- > > This is the entry I have added to /etc/grub.conf : > ----------------------------- > title Upgrade to Fedora-12 > root (hd0,1) > kernel /Fedora-12/vmlinuz ro > initrd /Fedora-12/initrd.img > ----------------------------- > > Now when I boot into this, all goes well until I try to install from > Fedora-12*.iso when I the error "Device /dev/sda6 does not appear to > contain an installation image". > > Am I doing something wrong? > > -- > 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 One can only guess, but... you put the images directory and Fedora12.iso in /home/tim ? and /dev/sda6 is /home ? Then when you boot you should specify both the drive and the path to the images directory. Don't remember if you must specify /tim or just tim. The point is you need to specify the path to the images directory, not just the drive. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
