Re: Configuring GRUB to boot FC-5-i386-DVD.iso

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On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 09:52 -0400, phil brogan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently running FC 1 and want to install FC 5.  I successfully 
> downloaded the FC 5 DVD install image FC-5-i386-DVD.iso, and sha1sum 
> successfully matches.
> 
> Here's my fstab (the FC-5-i386-DVD.iso file resides on the /dev/hdd volume):
> 
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/hdb2               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> /dev/hdd                /hdd                    ext3    defaults        1 1
> 
> Here's my grub.conf:
> 
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> #          root (hd0,0)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb1
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
>     root (hd0,0)
>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
>     initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
> 
> How do I tell GRUB to boot from the file /hdd/phil/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso 
> (where /hdd is the mount point of /dev/hdd)?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!

You can't boot directly from the ISO but you can pull the kernel and
initrd from there and get grub to boot them for you:

http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BootInstallerFromHardDisk

Paul.



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