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List:       grub-devel
Subject:    Re: AW: Boot isoimages from HD?
From:       Marco Gerards <metgerards () student ! han ! nl>
Date:       2004-12-20 11:56:43
Message-ID: 87652xgp38.fsf () marco ! marco-g ! com
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"Bettler, Thomas" <bettlert@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Or would it work maybe to write the ISOimage raw to a partition instead?
> Like this the kernel could be accessed via loopback or elsewhere, and my next question:
> - Is the Linux kernel able to detect and mount a HDpartition as iso9660?

For GRUB that should already work, I think.  No loopback required, it
is a normal "device".  As for linux, I think you just have to try
it...

> For this solution I only need a 700MB partition reserved for raw ISOimages.

Right.

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Marco




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