Hi, I am trying to boot the first Release Candidate of siduction 2012.2 - Riders on the Storm .iso from my hard drive. I have a new novatech ultrabook with no dvd drive, running mint 13 maya. I cannot boot using the siduction specific method because I am not running siduction yet. I have not been able to figure out how to compose the correct stanza so I tried booting with grml.
The stanza grml created is:
menuentry "Grml Rescue System (siduction.iso)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root fddddfd5-90ee-49a7-916e-03a24f98e045
iso_path="/boot/grml/siduction.iso"
export iso_path
kernelopts=" "
export kernelopts
loopback loop "/boot/grml/siduction.iso"
set root=(loop)
configfile /boot/grub/loopback.cfg
}
this seems to boot to the siduction boot menu ok, but when I boot from that, I get error messages:
error: file not found
error: you need to load the kernel first
Press any key to continue
Pressing any key takes me back to the siduction grub menu.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Edit: I have checked the md5sum.
Dont know about greml. Sometime ago I used something like this:
menuentry "siduction lxde amd64" {
set root='(hd0,3)'
insmod loopback
loopback loop /isos/siduction-lxde-amd64-20111230.iso
linux (loop)/boot/vmlinuz0.amd boot=fll
quiet fromhd=/dev/sda3
fromiso=/isos/siduction-lxde-amd64-20111230.iso
nointro lang=de tz=Europe/Brussels
initrd (loop)/boot/initrd0.amd
}Two lines:
linux .....
initrd ....
vmlinuz in your iso may have another file name. Look into it!
Short answer:
You could try to boot siduction from usb-stick (read appropriate pages in the manual.
A bit longer answer:
Unfortunately the fromiso boot may or may not work. With the last release there were postings telling one iso starts with a given hardware and does not with an other. And a given hardware, which does not boot one might boot with an other iso (does not boot siduction-kde, but siduction rqt). So to figure out how to boot a given iso on your system could be a very time consuming and frustrating adventure with open end.
Thanks guys.
@ralul: I moved the iso to a spare partition and adapted your stanza. It works!