booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

[stan]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:01:25 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Andras Simon wrote:
> 
> > 2012/3/22, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> #The /boot/f15x directory is where I extracted the vmlinuz
> >> #and initrd.img files from the isolinux directory on
> >> #the iso image,
> >> and /zooty/salvage/iso-images/Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-DVD/ #is the
> >> directory where I saved the iso image (where #the /zooty
> >> mountpoint mounts a partition with the label ZOOTY).
> >
> > Just a shot in the dark: aren't you by any chance trying to install
> > 64-bit Fedora on a 32-bit computer?
> 
> No. I'm using Fedora-16-i386-DVD.iso and files from it.
> 
Is it possible that the kernel isn't relocatable?  i.e.  it expects to
run from a specific address, and that address isn't available.  I'm not
sure how to check that, but the boot directory usually has the config
files for each installed kernel, and maybe you could grep it for the
appropriate switch.  Again, I don't know the name of that switch, I
just know that I've seen it while configuring a kernel.

Another idea.  Maybe you can run dracut on the vmlinuz from the DVD, and
generate a custom (I think that is the -h option) initramfs for your
system.  Use it instead of the one from the DVD when you boot from grub.