Re: Booting to .iso? - Possible with GRUB4DOS - Please add this support to GRUB2

[Vladimir Serbinenko]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:14 PM, step21 <address@hidden> wrote:

Or maybe this makes it more clear: With wubi (which uses grub4dos) for
example this only works, because the ubuntu installer and lateron the
installed system provide additional software that enables the system
to do so. (lupin/caspar)

on this system you don't need any additional command. Just load kernel from loopback

This only works if specifically supported by
some iso, it will not work to boot isos in general.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Vladimir Serbinenko <address@hidden> wrote:
> Usefulness of this is limited to situation where payload uses bios calls
> which are quite few (dos and dos based tools, some booters). You can't boot
> a modern OS this way: it will fail the millisecond OS switches to its own
> drivers. Additionally to do such thing you need to leave kernel in memory.
> Leaving kernel in memory can be useful in some situations but needs memory
> restructuring. Follow parallel thread on moving kernel to high memory
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Chip Panarchy <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> Please add support for booting to a .iso into GRUB2.
>>
>> More info: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5041
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Panarchy
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