Grub DSL live CD

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Grub DSL live CD
started by: khurdp

Posted by khurdp on Oct. 12 2005,20:27

Hello guys,
Is there a grub live DSL cd out there? If not any ideas how to put grub on a live cd...

thank you,
Prasad

Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 12 2005,21:11

Grub is included with DSL 1.5, for use with harddrive/frugal installs. As far as I know Grub cannot currently boot a liveCD system, so you're stuck with isolinux/syslinux in that situation.

Posted by khurdp on Oct. 13 2005,12:58

Thank you Mikshaw.

Well, I figured out in an attempt to put Grub on a live CD that I could do what I wanted to from /boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg.

I want to boot with "dsl 2 toram norestore vga=normal sshd" so i used the mkmydsl script and just before it made the iso from another console edited the isolinux.cfg and appended the above to the 'APPEND'. Everything else passed works correctly except the '2'. It won't boot to text only / root logged in. The '2' is completely ignored. Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

BTW, the sshd is supposed to let me telnet into the machine (no monitor/no keyboard) and make changes if I ever screw up the setup and can't get the vnc server to start or anything else for that matter. Will that work? I haven't tried it out but hoping it will work. Suggestions/advice appreciated.

Thank you,
Prasad

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Oct. 13 2005,14:04

Grub can boot a CD, if you compile it to. You will get a stage1_5_eltorito file.

There is instructions how to do it on the grub site. Not that hard.

Booting DSL from the same cd is a bit harder, but still possible, although you tend to be limited on the cheatcodes you can use.

That's why we use sys/isolinux to boot the cd.

-J.P.