Re: Boot from an ISO-File?

[David A. Cobb]

On 03/31/2011 02:19 PM, Goh Lip wrote:
> On Friday 01,April,2011 01:32 AM, David A. Cobb wrote:
> > The object: testing downloaded Linux (Ubuntu 11.04-pre) install media,
> > avoiding burning more coasters.
> David, I've been booting up iso files for quite some time; are you 
> asking if this can be done?
>
> Answer is yes. Just did that on kubuntu natty beta1 moments ago.
>
> Regards - Goh Lip
Sorry I was so unclear.  The question should have been "If yes, how?"  
Generally, googling the question gets a broad variety of answers -- the 
most frequent involving using a new partition on the HD to either copy 
("burn") the iso into, or extract it.  Your earlier post, including your 
menuentry, looks most helpful.

Assuming I am working from the GRUB command line, should I set the root 
to (loop)?  I do see that the Ubuntu LiveCD does contain a 
/boot/grub/grub.cfg file.  Your post shows the key information about how 
to communicate to the kernel where it is to find its files.

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David A. Cobb -- computing t-rex