thanks for the info. so that leaves me with the problem of how to boot a gpt partition where i have written the rescue image to. how do i get the mbr boot code to chainload the gpt boot partition?
On Apr 18, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Jordan Uggla wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Anselm Strauss <[email protected]> wrote: >> hi, >> >> i was looking for a possibility to boot grub 2 without needing a filesystem >> with grub files somewhere on the disk. i know i can make such an image with >> grub-mkrescue, but it generates an iso which, as far as i know, is not >> bootable directly from disk. > > You're mistaken. While it's true that most iso images are not designed > to also be bootable as hard disk images, grub-mkresue's images are. So > it sounds like grub-mkrescue is all you need. > > -- > Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
