Re: How to call dban fron grub ?

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 07.08.2009, 22:47 +0530 schrieb J. Bakshi:
> Hello developers,
> 
> I think ( please correct me if I am wrong ) I need not say more about dban 
> (Darik's Boot And Nuke); a HDD data eraser.
> dban is shipped with syslinux to fit into both Cd and USB stick. What I am 
> trying to achieve is to call dban by grub2.
> As per the syslinux.cfg; calling dban with shell is done by
> 
> `````` syslinux.cfg ````````
> 
> LABEL  shell
> KERNEL kernel.bzi
> APPEND initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 init=/rc nuke="exec ash"
> `````````````````
> 
> dban comes as floppy image as dban_1_0_7_i386.ima which has the kernel and 
> initrd image ( I have also confirmed by mount it through loopback device and 
> get the same ). To call it from grub with loopback I have done as below [ 
> Note: I have put dban_1_0_7_i386.ima in reiserfs partition (hd0,2) ]
> 
> ``````````
> menuentry "dban"
> {
> loopback loop (hd0,2)/dban_1_0_7_i386.ima
> linux (loop)/kernel.bzi nuke="exec ash"
> initrd (loop)/initrd.gz
> }
> ````````````
> 
> Grub calls dban successfully but immediately computer restarts. It happens 
> again and again whenever I call dban. Also checked by
> 
> linux (loop)/kernel.bzi root=/dev/ram0 init=(loop)/dban_1_0_7_i386.ima/rc 
> nuke="exec ash" 
> 
> but no luck. 
> 
> Does anyone of you have the luck to call dban from grub2 ?
> 
> 

Try with the old linux loader with linux16 and initrd16

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Felix Zielcke
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