Re: chained grub2 derivative bootauto system

2012-08-31 Thread Brendan Trotter
Hi, On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 09:19:43AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: >> Ivo, >> >> Interesting idea - I particularly like the idea of booting from >> arbitrary isos. > > Too bad that accessing an iso on a usb key is nothing like an actual

Re: Grub-devel Digest, Vol 102, Issue 12

2012-08-31 Thread ivo welch
thanks, everyone. I now understand that this was a pipe dream. sorry for having taken up the time. I will check out isoscan.cfg. probably better to email just me: is it possible to spawn a virtual machine that simulates the boot process while linux is still running (or get good diagnostics abo

Re: chained grub2 derivative bootauto system

2012-08-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:20:22PM -0700, ivo welch wrote: > dear grub2 developers: > > I have wrestled often with the problems of setting up grub2 on new systems. > I know booting is a low-level science in itself, so I don't dare to > pretend that I know anything. but I wanted to put up a smal

Re: chained grub2 derivative bootauto system

2012-08-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 09:19:43AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Ivo, > > Interesting idea - I particularly like the idea of booting from > arbitrary isos. Too bad that accessing an iso on a usb key is nothing like an actual cd or dvd and the sytem you boot must have support for the fact you put