SOLVED. Any tips on booting Release 5 iso from grub legecy

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SOLVED. Any tips on booting Release 5 iso from grub legecy

Postby bittwister » Jul 9th, '14, 16:47

Any tips on booting Release 5 iso from grub legacy?

In the past I could extract vmlinuz and all.rdz from the downloaded iso and boot it using
title Downloaded_iso
kernel (hd0,7)/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram3 ramdisk_size=32000 vga=791
initrd (hd0,7)/all.rdz

It is much faster than having to burn a cd or use a USB drive, then fight the UEFI bios to boot from the device.
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Re: Any tips on booting Release 5 iso from grub legecy

Postby jkerr82508 » Jul 9th, '14, 17:57

Do you mean "use the iso file as an installation source". If you do, then it still works for me. (I only proceeded as far as making sure that the installer was loaded and started - as far as the licence display.) I took all.rdz and vmlinuz from the mirror, but, I believe that those files are identical to the files on the iso.

What exactly is not working for you?

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Re: Any tips on booting Release 5 iso from grub legecy

Postby bittwister » Jul 10th, '14, 21:53

jkerr82508 wrote:Do you mean "use the iso file as an installation source".

From my downloaded iso partition, Yes.
I took all.rdz and vmlinuz from the mirror, but, I believe that those files are identical to the files on the iso.


There's the difference. My get_iso script attempts to pull all.rdz and vmlinuz from the downloaded iso.
I tried to find them but only found all.img in x86_64/install/images.
As I typed this I went back to get all.* name for this reply and there they are in isolinux/x86_64

My bad. I'm off to fix my get_iso script.

Thank you for your time.
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Re: SOLVED. Any tips on booting Release 5 iso from grub lege

Postby jkerr82508 » Jul 10th, '14, 22:37

Probably not the cause of the failure of your script, (otherwise it would have failed for Mageia 4 also) but there was a change in the directory structure on the DVD between Mageia 3 and Mageia 4. vmlinuz and all.rdz, instead of being in /x86_64/isolinux/alt0/ are now in /isolinux/x86_64/

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