schrieb Jordan Uggla on 2011-04-01 22:41: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:32 AM, David A. Cobb <[email protected]> wrote: >> The object: testing downloaded Linux (Ubuntu 11.04-pre) install media, >> avoiding burning more coasters. > > Ubuntu includes a loopback.cfg in their iso images specifically for > this purpose. By using the loopback.cfg you ensure that the commands > used have actually be designed and tested (by the Ubuntu developers) > to work for loop booting: > > http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Loopback.cfg#How_do_you_use_a_loopback.cfg_to_boot_an_iso.3F
The loopback.cfg thing is exactly what I'm looking for. Strange I did not find it in the Ubuntu docs, it seems it's rather new. It seems to me that this is not exactly basic use of GRUB2, but I think it's a very helpful application of loopback and lua in GRUB2. Any chance to document this feature in GRUB2 manuals? Any plan to coordinate/document a common mechanism for booting iso images or disk images? Patrick -- Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two Patrick Strasser <patrick dot strasser at tugraz dot at> Student of Telematik, Techn. University Graz, Austria _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
