live CDs

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi all,

I wrote a script (attached) to put in /etc/grub.d for automatically
adding live CD iso images from /boot/iso to /boot/grub/grub.cfg

A typical entry looks like this:

menuentry "Live CD ubuntu-9.10-beta-dvd-i386.iso" {
        loopback loop (hd0,1)/boot/iso/ubuntu-9.10-beta-dvd-i386.iso
        linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz  boot=casper
iso-scan/filename=/boot/iso/ubuntu-9.10-beta-dvd-i386.iso
        initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}


I have a couple of questions:

 * the script uses convert_system_path_to_grub_path() to construct the
loopback path.  This function is deprecated... is there a better way
to do this?

 * how should this be distributed?  Is this something that should be
distributed with grub, or added down-stream by distribution
maintainers?  My feeling is that it should be distributed by grub
directly, to foster compatibility between live CDs.  That is, it
should be possible to test out a SUSE live CD when running Ubuntu.

Cheers,
Andrew

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