booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

jackson byers byersjab at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 18:11:47 UTC 2012


>>Michael,
>>did you follow the Andras->Tom Horsley link?

>Yes.  See my previous reply.
> done some experimenting since.
>My machine can still boot from my FC13 installation disk.
>I let it get as far as offering to test the media.  I can't find my F14 disk.
>I copied FC13's vmlinuz to a hard drive and
>tried again with the grub command line.
>The kernel command segfaulted again.
>I even did a yum reinstall grub, but it didn't help.
>The kernel command still segfaulted.

I don't follow you at all; You are evidently even having trouble
on your existing F!3 (or F14), exactly how I don't understand.
You do need a working linux to do the hdinstall.

--you are evidently not using a grub.conf
  but rather running grub from the cmdline,
  which in my opinion just further makes it likely to make errors.

--you are evidently using a kickstart ks.cfg,
  about which I know nothing,
  but ks.cfg is  not used in the Horsley prescription

--why are you using the 'find' cmd in grub?
  You should know _exactly_ where you put the vmlinuz,initrd.img files
  extracted from the iso.
  And that info should be easily placed into a grub.conf stanza.
  You can also rename those files to vmlinuz-install, initrd.img-install
  which is recommended in the fedora project info,
  and  which makes clear that they are intended for an "install" stanza,
not to be confused with normal vmlinuz,....

Jack


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