Re: Unable to boot from ISO using 1.99rc1

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 09.03.2011 18:40, AlfaOmega08 wrote:
> Hi. I'm having problem to boot my own multiboot-compliant kernel from
> a CD/DVD. Using GRUB2 1.98 I did this:
> grub-mkimage -p /boot -o core.img -O i386-pc biosdisk iso9660
> multiboot configfile
> cat /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/cdboot.img core.img > eltorito.img
>
> then I prepared a directory like this:
> /
>  boot/
>    grub/
>      eltorito.img
>      grub.cfg
>    kernel.sys
You said to GRUB to search grub.cfg in /boot (-p /boot) but you put
grub.cfg into /boot/grub
>
> And using mkisofs specifing eltorito.img as boot image and other
> parameters I was able to boot my kernel. However with 1.99rc1 this
> doesn't seem to work anymore.
> I always end up to the grub shell (not the rescue one). Playing a bit
> with commands, what I came to the conclusion that, even though I put
> the iso9660 module in grub-mkimage grub isn't able to read the
> filesystem. The multiboot command always says "error: couldn't open
> file" and "ls (cd)" says "error: bad filename".
You didn't include full version of "ls". So only "ls (cd)/" would work.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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