I added the SL 6.3 iso which had come out in August to a multiboot usb
drive using grub2, and it booted quite nicely. I later wiped my drive and
downloaded the December 24, 2012 version, but the SL iso refused to boot
despite my toying with the grub2 options (found in the isolinux.cfg on the
iso) for hours. As the latest SL 6.3 iso was booting, I got error
notification stating that there had been a kernel panic (I have since
replaced the newer iso with the August 24, 2012 version and it has no
problem booting).
I have been able to boot Fedora 16, 17 and 18 (with minor changes in the
boot options for grub2), not to mention Debian 6, Backtrack 5 r3, Ubuntu,
Puppy Linux, Ophcrack for XP and for Vista, System Rescue CD and others. I
believe that the SL developers have made changes in the 6.3 iso in
december, preventing users from multibooting using grub2 and would like to
know why this is the case. An open-source OS should become more versatile
as time goes by, not less so, especially when it comes to the same version
(i.e., SL 6.3).
Here are the menuentries for SL 6.3 AND fedora 16 and 18 (as I stated
above, the older version of SL 6.3, and fedora 16 and 18 boot with no
problem from my multiboot usb drive using grub2):
menuentry "Scientific6.3-Live-Desktop ISO" {
linux /boot/Scientific6.3/vmlinuz0 root=live:LABEL=MultiBootUS
live_dir=/boot/Scientific6.3/LiveOS rootfstype=auto liveimg ro quiet rhgb
rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 splash --
initrd /boot/Scientific6.3/initrd0.img
}
menuentry "Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop ISO" {
linux /boot/fedora16-i686/vmlinuz0 root=live:LABEL=MultiBootUS
live_dir=/boot/fedora16-i686/LiveOS ro rootfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet
rhgb rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0
initrd /boot/fedora16-i686/initrd0.img
}
menuentry "Fedora-18-64bit-Live-Desktop ISO" {
linux /boot/Fedora18/vmlinuz0 initrd=initrd0.img
root=live:LABEL=MultiBootUS live_dir=/boot/Fedora18/LiveOS rootfstype=auto
persistent rw rd.live.image rd.live.overlay quiet rhgb rd.luks=0 rd.md=0
rd.dm=0
initrd /boot/Fedora18/initrd0.img
}
I would like to ask the developers to build the capability to be booted in
a multiboot device using grub2 back into the SL 6.3 iso. I would also ask
to have persistence built in such a way that it can easily be set up in a
multiboot grub2 system as is the case with Ubuntu and all of its
derivatives as well as other Linux distributions -- without having to rely
on live-iso-to-disk software which is used for fedora and other Red Hat
derivatives.
The above would make SL a more user-friendly, truly open-source OS -- and a
little more standardization probably would be beneficial for SL and all the
other Linux distributions and their users.
