booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

[stan]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:30:19 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, stan wrote:

> > I think pentium 4 is fairly old hardware.  I doubt either the kernel
> > developers or Fedora developers are using such hardware, and so you
> > could be hitting a regression that wasn't caught during
> > kernel development because no one is running that hardware.
> 
> Any idea how I would find out for sure?

Sorry, I don't, and doing so is likely to be difficult - you could try
searching. But you seem to be a rare case having a problem installing
from the DVD, and you have rare hardware; correlation isn't causation,
but... To see if it was introduced with the branch from 2.6.3x to 3.x,
which seems like a logical assumption, you could try using the F15
install DVD. It still used the 2.6.3x kernels, though it is now updated
to 3.2.x kernels as 2.6.42.x.

> > No.  I am suggesting you create a custom initramfs for the DVD
> > kernel for your system.  Use it instead of the generic DVD
> > initramfs.  I am suggesting this because it might allow the boot
> > process to bypass the problem it is having running the DVD kernel.
> > It should still find the
> 
> That also means that I would have to generate the image somehow.
> I've no idea how I would do that.
> 
That's the command I posted a few posts ago.
/sbin/dracut -f -H -v --debug  custom-2.6.42.10-1.20120315.fc15.x86_64.img 2.6.42.10-1.20120315.fc15.x86_64 > dracut_output 2>&1
You use dracut.  Whatever name you use where I've used custom, you need
to use it in the grub boot stanza for booting the ISO from the hard
drive.  In the stanza you posted before,
initrd /isolinux/initrd.img
replace initrd.img with whatever you call the new image you create with
dracut.