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    [SOLVED] Re: Using grub 2 to boot an iso off hard drive

    Thank you oldfred, drs305, C.S.Cameron, and Herman. oldfred THANK you for the working grub.cfg entry!

    I modified your entry for 10.04 and my hard drives.

    menuentry "fat Ubuntu 10.04" {
    set...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Using grub 2 to boot an iso off hard drive

    I dropped the 8.04 iso. I won't try that one anymore. It is interesting that the .iso file needs to have built in support for this kind of booting. I boot many .iso files with my VM without any...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Using grub 2 to boot an iso off hard drive

    Thanks for the reply. drs305 and I can only make it to the initramfs prompt.

    I have some questions for you.
    1. Is your flash drive bootable?
    2. Are you booting a ubuntu .iso file? If I did an...
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    [all variants] Re: Boot Linux ISO Image From Hard Drive

    What is the bottom line? Just using grub2 not unetbootin, grml, mounting the iso, or grub4dos. I don't think 'Using grub 2 to boot an iso off hard drive' works. It sounds nice.

    Does anyone out...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Using grub 2 to boot an iso off hard drive

    Thanks for looking into this for me. I also ended up at the 'initramfs' point with Ubuntu 8.04. I tried Ubuntu 10.04 and I get '(initiramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system'....
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    [SOLVED] Re: Using grub 2 to boot an iso off hard drive

    With this grub 2 entry I made some progress.

    menuentry "ubu804 ISO" {
    loopback loop (hd0,5)/boot/iso/ubuntu804.iso
    linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Using grub 2 to boot an iso off hard drive

    I modified my grub.cfg and I still get the same error. I am testing this functionality in a Virtualbox machine. Here is some more information.

    1. fdisk
    root@user01-desktop:~# fdisk -l
    Disk...
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    [SOLVED] Using grub 2 to boot an iso off hard drive

    I have a dual boot machine windows xp & Ubuntu 10.04. I want to use Grub 2 to boot an Ubuntu 8.04 32bit live cd image off my hard drive. I put a copy of the 8.04 iso in a new directory /boot/iso. I...
  9. [SOLVED] Re: Right click Folder/Dir to create .ISO - Gnome

    Thanks! Nautilus scripts will do it.

    run the ISO X nautilus script.
    You can download it from http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Nautilus-Scripts-Pack-Download-41620.html

    Reference...
  10. [SOLVED] Right click Folder/Dir to create .ISO - Gnome

    I want to right click a folder/dir from gnome and have a "create .iso from folder/dir" menu entry. This feature would be very handy to have for my virtual machines.

    How can I integrate the...
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    [SOLVED] Re: can crontab do this

    Thanks. This should work fine. I just have to remember to delete the old dates and add the new dates each year.
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    [SOLVED] can crontab do this

    I need to run a shell script on a series of dates. The dates don't follow a pattern ex.
    run the shell script on 06/09/09, 06/14/09, 07/01/09, and 07/28/09.

    I could put the dates in a database...
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