booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Andras Simon wrote:

> 2012/3/20, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>:
>> On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>
>>> I have a bootable DVD iso that I can copy to a hard drive partition.
>>> How, if at all, can I boot from that partition?

> You may find this useful:
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-April/396056.html

Thank you for the suggestion.
I seem to have the same problem I had with the minimal CD.
(hd0,2) aka /dev/sda3 was later mounted on /media/3 ,
the installation DVD iso on /media/henry .
[root at localhost tmp]# grub
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.


     GNU GRUB  version 0.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

  [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
    lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the
possible
    completions of a device/filename.]
grub> root (hd0,2)
root (hd0,2) aka /dev/sda3 was later mounted on /media/3 .
  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> kernel /vmlinuz
kernel /vmlinuz
    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x4000, size=0x3dbf60]
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
...
[root at localhost tmp]# file /media/3/vmlinuz
/media/3/vmlinuz: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version
3.1.0-7.fc16.i686 (mockbuild at x8, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x3, Normal VGA
[root at localhost tmp]# cmp /media/3/vmlinuz /media/henry/isolinux/vmlinuz
[root at localhost tmp]# sha256sum /media/3/vmlinuz 
73ca29c9e5d819b238f872fc8321c61720abdb4df04c714456c8b1ce5c174419 /media/3/vmlinuz

...

[root at localhost tmp]# gdb grub core.2858
GNU gdb (GDB) Fedora (7.2-52.fc14)
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show
copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i686-redhat-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /sbin/grub...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
[New Thread 2858]
Core was generated by `grub'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x0805deda in ?? ()
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install
grub-0.97-66.fc14.i686
(gdb) where
#0  0x0805deda in ?? ()
#1  0x0805827f in ?? ()
#2  0x0805a2dd in ?? ()
#3  0x08055051 in ?? ()
#4  0x0804b401 in ?? ()
#5  0x08048671 in ?? ()
#6  0x08048858 in ?? ()
#7  0x08048543 in ?? ()
#8  0x08060384 in ?? ()
#9  0x080481e1 in ?? ()
(gdb)


As noted in another thread, I'm sure of the iso file and of my memory.
Could grub have something against pentium 4s?

[root at localhost ~]# yum info grub
..
Installed Packages
Name        : grub
Arch        : i686
Epoch       : 1
Version     : 0.97
Release     : 66.fc14
Size        : 2.4 M
Repo        : installed