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Villefort
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Hi there!
I'm trying to make an option in my grub to be able to load any (well, not any, exactly) .iso live distro. For now, I have an Arch Linux iso which uses El Torito bootloader and I see no posiibility to just loop it and do linux->initrd.
All intelligence I could gather is that I may make use of grub4dos which can chainload the ElTorito bootloader while grub isn't able to do so. So, as I understood, I have to something like:
1) Make an option in my grub.cfg to boot grub4dos (as it kinda has the linux kernel format) as a kernel, and then
2) I would be able to chainload the ElTorito iso. Right?
I have grub of 2.00 version. It isn't (grub2) 2.00 which I also have in my /usr/sbin, it's just (grub) 2.00. Isn't there any simplier way to chainload from it to iso with ElTorito bootloader?
PS I couldn't get into how to just load Arch kernel from iso without chainloading into it. There isn't any familiar files, just vmlinuz in one folder and no initrd.
I'm trying to make an option in my grub to be able to load any (well, not any, exactly) .iso live distro. For now, I have an Arch Linux iso which uses El Torito bootloader and I see no posiibility to just loop it and do linux->initrd.
All intelligence I could gather is that I may make use of grub4dos which can chainload the ElTorito bootloader while grub isn't able to do so. So, as I understood, I have to something like:
1) Make an option in my grub.cfg to boot grub4dos (as it kinda has the linux kernel format) as a kernel, and then
2) I would be able to chainload the ElTorito iso. Right?
I have grub of 2.00 version. It isn't (grub2) 2.00 which I also have in my /usr/sbin, it's just (grub) 2.00. Isn't there any simplier way to chainload from it to iso with ElTorito bootloader?
PS I couldn't get into how to just load Arch kernel from iso without chainloading into it. There isn't any familiar files, just vmlinuz in one folder and no initrd.