On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <[email protected]>wrote:
> В Sun, 6 Apr 2014 22:10:25 +0530 > Rustom Mody <[email protected]> пишет: > > > Many people -- in particular hardware vendors -- are nowadays supplying > > bootable ISO's. > > You have to > > 1. Download the ISO > > 2. Burn a CD > > 3. Boot with it > > 4. Follow the instructions (to (re)flash the motherboard/CP/Disk etc) > > > > Ive already been able to boot ubuntu from an iso on disk > > Next Ive done it with making a grub-bootable usb and loop-mounting the > iso > > from there > > > > So now to boot from a general (ie non linux) bootable ISO? > > > > I do not think it is possible in general case. For a start, program > that would be started from ISO may need access to CD/DVD which is > possible only if system firmware (BIOS/EFI) actually see device. > > Sorry.... Maybe I focused on the wrong aspect -- hardware flashing. So to correct that: 1. I believe that Isolinux can do this 2. These ISOs are (often) under the control of FreeDos So maybe I rephrase my question as: How to boot a Freedos based system from grub2?
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