On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 10:49:56AM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
My machine won't boot with a USB drive attached and my burner does not work. Can one boot using a partition that is an iso image? I've mounted such partitions, but that is not the same as booting from one.I did not try that with the current anaconda but I expect that this, or something similar, should work. At least Fedora 16 and earlier can be booted to an installation image with the following grub2.cfg entry (adjust all of that to a need and taste - this is only an example): menuentry 'Anaconda' { load_video set gfxpayload=keep insmod gzio insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 linux (hd0,msdos2)/boota/vmlinuz repo=hd:/dev/sda<X>:/<path_to_a_directory_with_an_iso_image>/ initrd (hd0,msdos2)/boota/initrd.img }
Is there an equivalent in grub 1?
Obviously things like "/boota/" and "/<path_to_a_directory_with_an_iso_image>/" are relative to corresponding disk devices and not to /. 'vmlinux' and 'initrd.img' refer to files you will find, for example, in 'pxeboot' directory of your distro. It is a good idea not to keep your iso image on a partition you are going to clobber while installing. :-) Making '/boota/' different from '/boot/' and on a "set-aside" device could be handy, especially if you are going to repeat an exercise above, but it is not strictly required.
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