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Frostwarrior

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Registered: 2009-06-06

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Booting arch inside in a img file?

Anyone knows if that's possible?

There is a guide to make grub booting an .img floppy:
http://www.wikihow.com/Boot-a-Floppy-Im … Bootloader

Any help will be thankful

Last edited by Frostwarrior (2009-10-26 10:43:35)

graysky

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Re: Booting arch inside in a img file?

I asked the same question 4-5 mo ago

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73084

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Frostwarrior

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Registered: 2009-06-06

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Re: Booting arch inside in a img file?

That's not exactly my question.
In your post you wanted to install arch using the .iso without a cd. That's fine if you have an independent partition to copy the files.

What i want is toconfigure grub to boot an entire linux system located in an .img file without needing another partition.

djgera

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Re: Booting arch inside in a img file?

Hi,

You need a "raw" medium. This is, if you put an iso9660 or an img (a mbr+partition like arch*.img) inside a partition with a filesystem (ext2, vfat ntfs, etc) you need something like a "small os" that interpret the filesystem put on memory, do some emulations to appear as drive then execute it.

bootloader-> small "os" -> your iso/img

Last edited by djgera (2009-11-21 23:41:05)