[opensuse] Grub on CD
Hello All, I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr. So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ? If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ? -- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clive Rogers schrieb:
Hello All,
I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr.
So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ? Hi! This won't work.
Alternatives: 1) use a floppy disk with grub on the boot sector which then loads everything from the hard disk (/ or /boot partition). Fast, because only the boot sector (512 bytes) should be loaded from the disk, NOT the other grub stages, menu.lst and the kernel. I haven't done this with grub, only with lilo, yet. 2) put grub onto the boot sector of the / or the /boot partition (if you have one). Then, configure your XP boot menu to boot this partition. You have to get a certain tool -- bootpart, http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm, create a "boot sector file" that boots the /[boot] partition, and enter "it" into boot.ini of windows partition (probably C:\). 3) for a CD boot, you need isolinux. As this is probably not what you want/need, I just leave it with that. I'd guess that (2) is the best solution for your friend; I had done this for quite some time, with 2000 and XP, and LILO on the linux partition(s). For some time though, grub is on the MBR. By the way: To restore the MBR for Windows, if you should overwrite it, you need to boot a windows (XP) CD, boot into "rescue console", select your installation (probably 1), enter the "Administrator" password, and type fixmbr, possible fixboot afterwards. Vista should also be able to do this, though I don't exactly know how. Hope this helps, Sebastian
If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ?
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Clive Rogers wrote:
Hello All,
I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr.
So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ?
If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ?
Why not just get rid of the graphic splash, set widows as the default and set the timeout to 1 second. He would probably never even notice grub. If he then wanted to boot linux, he could just tap a key during boot to stop the timeout and boot to linux. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 25 October 2007 18:32:13 David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote:
Clive Rogers wrote:
Hello All,
I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr.
So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ?
If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ?
Why not just get rid of the graphic splash, set widows as the default and set the timeout to 1 second. He would probably never even notice grub. If he then wanted to boot linux, he could just tap a key during boot to stop the timeout and boot to linux.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Thanks David. This was my suggestion to him but he wants to do it from CD. -- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 18:12 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote:
So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ?
If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ?
I think you could tell Yast to install grub on a floppy. When that works, you burn a CD (with k3b, for instance) telling it to use the floppy as an "El Torito" boot image. The actual data of the CD doesn't matter (maybe you have to 'dd' the floppy to a file first). Of course, he needs a floppy drive first... And I haven't tried this procedure with Linux, only with msdos; so I can't certify it works. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHIOs/tTMYHG2NR9URAk/XAJ9UbkdjVAsH8PQHbSFnkZKZR472eACgl1uK ZzkJ3Q39lGL4D/oOCo2PCkU= =/bqD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 25 October 2007 20:15:10 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 18:12 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote:
So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ?
If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ?
I think you could tell Yast to install grub on a floppy. When that works, you burn a CD (with k3b, for instance) telling it to use the floppy as an "El Torito" boot image. The actual data of the CD doesn't matter (maybe you have to 'dd' the floppy to a file first).
Of course, he needs a floppy drive first... And I haven't tried this procedure with Linux, only with msdos; so I can't certify it works.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
He don't have a floppy on his laptop. -- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clive Rogers wrote:
On Thursday 25 October 2007 20:15:10 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 18:12 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote:
So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ?
If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ? I think you could tell Yast to install grub on a floppy. When that works, you burn a CD (with k3b, for instance) telling it to use the floppy as an "El Torito" boot image. The actual data of the CD doesn't matter (maybe you have to 'dd' the floppy to a file first).
Of course, he needs a floppy drive first... And I haven't tried this procedure with Linux, only with msdos; so I can't certify it works.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
He don't have a floppy on his laptop.
USB floppies are inexpensive. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 21:56 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote:
Of course, he needs a floppy drive first... And I haven't tried this procedure with Linux, only with msdos; so I can't certify it works.
He don't have a floppy on his laptop.
Then, perhaps you can do the procedure on your own machine. You'd have to learn a way to install grub manually on a floppy. One of the parameters to pass on is which disk and partition holds the /boot directory, but those of his machine. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHISHytTMYHG2NR9URAsd8AKCDjWoTIik/AJrZ6wRH8bC+JC75NwCfcGZV ul+79YFlR1fH1eALyB3p6R8= =78No -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 25 October 2007 12:12:46 pm Clive Rogers wrote:
Hello All,
I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr.
So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ?
If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ?
-- Kindest regards,
Clive
Current setup with openSUSE 10.3 doesn't install grub in MBR. It is actually installed on openSUSE partition that is declared active so you can boot with any boot loader that will transfer control to boot sector of active partition including the one that is already installed by Windows. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clive Rogers wrote:
Hello All,
I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr.
So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ?
If you've ever installed SuSE off of a CD or DVD, the boot screen has the following options [ ] Boot Installed System [ ] Memtest86 [ ] Install SuSE Linux [ ] Safe Install SuSE Linux [the last option being one with the noapic and another option which prevents problems with older motherboards] So just use a SuSE install CD as a boot CD.
If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ?
It's already on the SuSE install CD/DVD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 25 October 2007 22:26:44 Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Clive Rogers wrote:
Hello All,
I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr.
So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ?
If you've ever installed SuSE off of a CD or DVD, the boot screen has the following options
[ ] Boot Installed System [ ] Memtest86 [ ] Install SuSE Linux [ ] Safe Install SuSE Linux
[the last option being one with the noapic and another option which prevents problems with older motherboards]
So just use a SuSE install CD as a boot CD.
If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ?
It's already on the SuSE install CD/DVD
Agreed. I also told him this but he is adamant he want to put the CD into the drive and let it boot from there with no further interaction from himself. I think he is onto a loosing streak and for the life of me I can not see why he can't/won't install grub or lilo to the mbr which is the quickest and easiest options. Thanks everyone for your thoughts and options. -- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clive Rogers wrote:
On Thursday 25 October 2007 22:26:44 Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Clive Rogers wrote:
Hello All,
I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr.
So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ? If you've ever installed SuSE off of a CD or DVD, the boot screen has the following options
[ ] Boot Installed System [ ] Memtest86 [ ] Install SuSE Linux [ ] Safe Install SuSE Linux
[the last option being one with the noapic and another option which prevents problems with older motherboards]
So just use a SuSE install CD as a boot CD.
If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ? It's already on the SuSE install CD/DVD
Agreed. I also told him this but he is adamant he want to put the CD into the drive and let it boot from there with no further interaction from himself.
Which is EXACTLY what the install CD will do.
I think he is onto a loosing streak
Especially since the install CD will do EXACTLY what he demands that it do...
and for the life of me I can not see why he can't/won't install grub or lilo to the mbr which is the quickest and easiest options.
He's just making up EXCUSES (note, not reasons -- reasons are actual facts, whereas excuses are made-up and as in this case, counter-factual) to not change.. Personally, I'd just drop the subject, and if he asks, say, "Look, I gave you a solution which completely fulfills your stringent demands and desires, and you rejected it, so I'm not wasting any more time when you're completely unwilling to accept exactly what you asked for." And the next time he complains about how Windows is making his life sucky again, tell him you don't want to hear about THAT either, because he ALREADY HAS A SOLUTION to his problems. Many times, the solution isn't technical, it's psychological.
Thanks everyone for your thoughts and options.
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 23:02 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote:
It's already on the SuSE install CD/DVD
Agreed. I also told him this but he is adamant he want to put the CD into the drive and let it boot from there with no further interaction from himself.
I think he is onto a loosing streak and for the life of me I can not see why he can't/won't install grub or lilo to the mbr which is the quickest and easiest options.
You can also install grub on the linux partition instead of the mbr, as Rajko said. It works. The partition is marked active, instead of the windows partition, so the default untouched code in the mbr boots whichever partition is marked active, that happens to be the linux one, containing the grub code, which will put the menu asking which system you want to boot. If he wants to disable grub, he just has to change the windows partition to be active with a partitioner. Also, if his machine can boot from the usb, I think you could install grub there. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHITW9tTMYHG2NR9URAuWhAJ0fZpTH+bwMO2+IbAs5IX9+emGajgCfR54u Hs/DnVeE0yVwaEDFEmo6X7c= =ibiD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi Carlos, On Friday 26 October 2007 01:32:47 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 23:02 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote:
It's already on the SuSE install CD/DVD <snip>
Also, if his machine can boot from the usb, I think you could install grub there.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Do you mean he can boot his partition from a USB key ? I will google this and have an look see. Thanks for the heads up on this one. -- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 26 October 2007 04:39:28 am Clive Rogers wrote:
Hi Carlos,
On Friday 26 October 2007 01:32:47 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2007-10-25 at 23:02 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote:
It's already on the SuSE install CD/DVD
<snip>
Also, if his machine can boot from the usb, I think you could install grub there.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Do you mean he can boot his partition from a USB key ? I will google this and have an look see. Thanks for the heads up on this one.
Clive, what is the problem with my explanation? Since 10.2 openSUSE is using generic bootloader that will boot any partition marked bootable independent of installed operating system. Install grub in boot sector of openSUSE partition and using console program cfdisk make it active, it is called 'bootable' in cfdisk. MBR of hard disk will stay as is. Limitation to this is that bootable can be only primary partition, not logical as generic bootloader is looking in partition table that has only 4 entries for primary partitions. YaST Partitioner for now lacks ability to change bootable/active flag so you have to use external program (cfdisk) to change it. If your friend decide not to use Linux all you have to do is to boot in openSUSE and run cfdisk again and mark windows partition as bootable and openSUSE will disappear, while it will be possible to boot it from CD or USB stick. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi Rajko, On Friday 26 October 2007 18:36:25 Rajko M. wrote: <snip>
Clive,
what is the problem with my explanation?
Nothing as far as I can see. I had a look around the internet for my own benefit.
Since 10.2 openSUSE is using generic bootloader that will boot any partition marked bootable independent of installed operating system.
Right now my friend is trying out different versions of LInux so I am not sure which way he is going to jump.
Install grub in boot sector of openSUSE partition and using console program cfdisk make it active, it is called 'bootable' in cfdisk. MBR of hard disk will stay as is. Limitation to this is that bootable can be only primary partition, not logical as generic bootloader is looking in partition table that has only 4 entries for primary partitions.
This I e-mailed to him when you sent it too me.
YaST Partitioner for now lacks ability to change bootable/active flag so you have to use external program (cfdisk) to change it.
As you know most other distros don't use YaST so again a quick check would help him here and I could also e-mail him the pages I found.
If your friend decide not to use Linux all you have to do is to boot in openSUSE and run cfdisk again and mark windows partition as bootable and openSUSE will disappear, while it will be possible to boot it from CD or USB stick.
Yes, I sent him the information and he has not come back to me as yet so I don't know what he is doing. As far as I am concerned he should just install either lilo or grub on the mbr and be done with it. But, he will only boot into a linux distro which ever one he decides to use using the CD or as I wrote him the USB stick like you said in your mail. Some people just like to be different for the sake of it I think ;-) I am hopeful he will go with SuSE 10.3 but this will be his decision.
-- Regards, Rajko.
-- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 26 October 2007 04:55:41 pm Clive Rogers wrote:
Hi Rajko, [...]
Since 10.2 openSUSE is using generic bootloader that will boot any partition marked bootable independent of installed operating system.
Right now my friend is trying out different versions of LInux so I am not sure which way he is going to jump.
So far I know any Linux can install bootloader in bootsector of own partition. On the other side your friend can create 2 primaries, one for swap the other for installed system, and the rest can be extended partition with one logical for /home and few for test installations. I would not use my normal /home for other distros as that can make trouble. From base system in primary and /home in first of logical partitions you can boot whatever you want and have safe haven if other distro get borked. By now it worked with any distro, including FreeBSD.
Install grub in boot sector of openSUSE partition and using console program cfdisk make it active, it is called 'bootable' in cfdisk. MBR of hard disk will stay as is. Limitation to this is that bootable can be only primary partition, not logical as generic bootloader is looking in partition table that has only 4 entries for primary partitions.
This I e-mailed to him when you sent it too me.
YaST Partitioner for now lacks ability to change bootable/active flag so you have to use external program (cfdisk) to change it.
As you know most other distros don't use YaST so again a quick check would help him here and I could also e-mail him the pages I found.
All distros I tried have cfdisk and it is with Midnight Commander (file manager with built in editor, simple ftp client, and much more) something that I test is it installed and if not install on the spot.
If your friend decide not to use Linux all you have to do is to boot in openSUSE and run cfdisk again and mark windows partition as bootable and openSUSE will disappear, while it will be possible to boot it from CD or USB stick.
Yes, I sent him the information and he has not come back to me as yet so I don't know what he is doing.
As far as I am concerned he should just install either lilo or grub on the mbr and be done with it.
As mentioned it will not happen since 10.2. The only thing openSUSE loads in MBR is free generic bootloader. That way user complies with other OS license 100%, ie. no componet is used outside OS context, and one day when user wants to remove linux generic bootloader can continue to serve. It is not biased toward OS, it likes only active partition :-)
But, he will only boot into a linux distro which ever one he decides to use using the CD or as I wrote him the USB stick like you said in your mail.
Some people just like to be different for the sake of it I think ;-) I am hopeful he will go with SuSE 10.3 but this will be his decision.
Some people are afraid of unknown, some to loose data, and they are not thought to make backup. Some people spent days to recover system even with backup. I did system recovery for a friends, and I know what pain that is. Sitting in front of computer waiting for prompts for a few hours until system is reinstalled, patched, has antivirus and firewall. Now I will if they want to install Linux as backup solution, and then I can come when I have time, no rush ;-) -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
HI Rajko, On Saturday 27 October 2007 08:31:29 Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 26 October 2007 04:55:41 pm Clive Rogers wrote:
Hi Rajko,
[...]
Since 10.2 openSUSE is using generic bootloader that will boot any partition marked bootable independent of installed operating system.
Right now my friend is trying out different versions of LInux so I am not sure which way he is going to jump.
So far I know any Linux can install bootloader in bootsector of own partition. On the other side your friend can create 2 primaries, one for swap the other for installed system, and the rest can be extended partition with one logical for /home and few for test installations. I would not use my normal /home for other distros as that can make trouble.
From base system in primary and /home in first of logical partitions you can boot whatever you want and have safe haven if other distro get borked. By now it worked with any distro, including FreeBSD.
Install grub in boot sector of openSUSE partition and using console program cfdisk make it active, it is called 'bootable' in cfdisk. MBR of hard disk will stay as is. Limitation to this is that bootable can be only primary partition, not logical as generic bootloader is looking in partition table that has only 4 entries for primary partitions.
This I e-mailed to him when you sent it too me.
YaST Partitioner for now lacks ability to change bootable/active flag so you have to use external program (cfdisk) to change it.
As you know most other distros don't use YaST so again a quick check would help him here and I could also e-mail him the pages I found.
All distros I tried have cfdisk and it is with Midnight Commander (file manager with built in editor, simple ftp client, and much more) something that I test is it installed and if not install on the spot.
If your friend decide not to use Linux all you have to do is to boot in openSUSE and run cfdisk again and mark windows partition as bootable and openSUSE will disappear, while it will be possible to boot it from CD or USB stick.
Yes, I sent him the information and he has not come back to me as yet so I don't know what he is doing.
As far as I am concerned he should just install either lilo or grub on the mbr and be done with it.
As mentioned it will not happen since 10.2. The only thing openSUSE loads in MBR is free generic bootloader. That way user complies with other OS license 100%, ie. no componet is used outside OS context, and one day when user wants to remove linux generic bootloader can continue to serve. It is not biased toward OS, it likes only active partition :-)
But, he will only boot into a linux distro which ever one he decides to use using the CD or as I wrote him the USB stick like you said in your mail.
Some people just like to be different for the sake of it I think ;-) I am hopeful he will go with SuSE 10.3 but this will be his decision.
Some people are afraid of unknown, some to loose data, and they are not thought to make backup. Some people spent days to recover system even with backup.
I did system recovery for a friends, and I know what pain that is. Sitting in front of computer waiting for prompts for a few hours until system is reinstalled, patched, has antivirus and firewall.
Now I will if they want to install Linux as backup solution, and then I can come when I have time, no rush ;-)
-- Regards, Rajko.
I will pass on your thoughts and comments and see which way he jumps. -- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Finally got grub on a CD to boot my friends Kubuntu. If anyone is interested I can tell you how it was done. -- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:49 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote:
Finally got grub on a CD to boot my friends Kubuntu. If anyone is interested I can tell you how it was done.
-- Kindest regards,
Clive
Yes, I'd like to hear your solution. Can you post it for us?
---Bryen---
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On Saturday 27 October 2007 23:04:42 Bryen wrote:
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:49 +0100, Clive Rogers wrote:
Finally got grub on a CD to boot my friends Kubuntu. If anyone is interested I can tell you how it was done.
-- Kindest regards,
Clive
Yes, I'd like to hear your solution. Can you post it for us?
---Bryen---
Here is what I did in Kubuntu to get Kubuntu to boot from a CD. # make directory iso. mkdir iso # make further diretories inside iso. mkdir -p iso/boot/grub # copy stage2_eltorito from /usr/lib/grub etc to home directory iso/boot/grub. cp /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito iso/boot/grub # copy the menu.lst again to the iso/boot/grub. cp /boot/grub/menu.lst iso/boot/grub kwrite iso/boot/grub/menu.lst Ignore any errors you see. This will open the file menu.lst in kwrite. Now make the changes then save it. ################## start menu.lst ################################# # Don't change this line. default 0 # This you can change to suite your self. Commenting it out just makes it sit # there waiting for you to hit enter. 1 makes it work so that you hardly # notice it. timeout 1 # This you can change to suite your self. # Pretty colours color cyan/blue white/blue # Here you have to take note of which kernel you are using. Tell it where the # root (hd0,6) is. # Note I have also told it which hard drive partition it is after the # kernel /boot/vmlinuz line with root=/dev/sda7 # Without this it just sits there waitng for root file system to settle for 5 # mins then quits to the command line. # Notice I have also taken out the UID number which is something like 20 chars # long. title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic root (hd0,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=/dev/sda7 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic boot ############## end menu.lst ######################################### # build the iso by putting this all on one line. mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o grub.iso iso Now burn iso with favourite burning software like k3b (this is what I used on the laptop. Hope this helps. This I sent to my friend via e-mail so please excuse it if it sounds condescending as he and I are not Linux gurus. -- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Aaron Kulkis -
Bryen -
Carlos E. R. -
Clive Rogers -
David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. -
Rajko M. -
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