how to boot floppy disk and CD disk images using grub and grub2

Jun 07, 2012 16:25


I spend about an hour fiddling with this stuff yesterday, so I think it might be worth sharing my findings.

Using the below instructions, you can easily boot floopy and ISO images, such as the ones used for hardware diagnostics, right from GRUB or GRUB2 bootloader. That eliminates the need to write a CD or run around searching for a strange thing ( Read more... )

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romikt June 7 2012, 17:23:14 UTC
There is also grub-imageboot package that adds GRUB2 boot entries for ISOs found in /boot/images automatically.

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k001 September 24 2012, 08:59:06 UTC
apparently not for Fedora :(

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dil September 23 2012, 20:22:29 UTC
Мой grub2 на такие menuentry говорит, что сначала неплохо бы ядро загрузить. И он, видимо, прав, потому что команды kernel16 у него нет: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Command_002dline-and-menu-entry-commands.html

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k001 September 24 2012, 08:56:33 UTC
м-да, наверное linux16
"бес попутал" (С)
сейчас поправлю

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k001 September 24 2012, 08:59:24 UTC
fixed, thanks ;)

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ext_957672 September 29 2013, 20:51:28 UTC
Коллега, в общем случае для образов дискет надо писать /memdisk raw
Иначе возможны ошибки, например, если там freedos и highmem

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ext_957672 September 29 2013, 21:12:24 UTC
И да, большое спасибо за статью :)

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