Hi,
you can also use isolinux to achieve this behaviour. In isolinux.cfg could
be something like this:
default local
label local
localboot 128
Regards, Moritz
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> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:unattended-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Thomas Lohschmidt
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Mai 2005 14:50
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: How about using GRUB a CD Bootloader
>
> Hi,
>
> I've made a linuxboot-CD with GRUB as bootloader and found out a nice
> feature.
>
> You can specify a default entry to boot and a fallback if the default
> does not work. This way I can install new i. e. blank harddisks by just
> putting the cd into the drive and walk away. The first time GRUB uses
> the fallback entry - booting unattended, the second time it uses the
> default und boots into the windows setup.
>
> Here is my menu.lst:
>
> # Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from
> 0, and
> # the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
> #
> default 0
>
> # Fallback to the second entry.
> fallback 1
>
> ## timeout sec
> # Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the
> default entry
> # (normally the first entry defined).
> timeout 10
>
> # Pretty colours
> color cyan/blue white/blue
>
> # German keys
> setkey z y
> setkey Z Y
> setkey y z
> setkey Y Z
> #
> #
> setkey equal parenright
> setkey parenright parenleft
> setkey doublequote at
> setkey backquote equal
> setkey parenleft asterisk
> setkey plus bracketright
> setkey minus slash
> setkey ampersand caret
> setkey numbersign less
> setkey slash ampersand
> setkey underscore question
> setkey question underscore
> setkey semicolon less
> setkey less backslash
> setkey colon greater
> setkey greater bar
> setkey asterisk braceright
> setkey backslash minus
> setkey caret backquote
>
> title Installed Windows 2000/XP
> root (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
> title Unattended Installation
> root (cd)
> kernel /boot/bzImage z_user=install z_pass=password
> z_path=\\192.168.0.1\install
> initrd /boot/initrd
>
>
> It's not much different to isolinux. My directory structure follows:
>
> iso
> `-- boot
> |-- bzImage
> |-- grub
> | |-- menu.lst
> | `-- stage2_eltorito
> `-- initrd
>
>
> To make the iso image file (from GRUB manual):
>
> mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot \
> -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o grub.iso iso
>
>
> Maybe this can be considered for future versions of unatteded if/when
> there are others who find it useful.
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>
>
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