Package: grub-imageboot Version: 0.6 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
when trying to boot a Debian live image it is not obvious how to achieve it. Therefore I have attached a patch for the README.Debian to include a hint on the findiso kernel commandline parameter. Kind regards, Kai Harries -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages grub-imageboot depends on: ii grub-pc 2.02~beta2-18 ii syslinux-common 3:6.03+dfsg-4 grub-imageboot recommends no packages. grub-imageboot suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
--- /usr/share/doc/grub-imageboot/README.Debian 2011-12-23 00:36:12.000000000 +0100 +++ README.Debian 2014-12-20 10:58:27.684700976 +0100 @@ -14,3 +14,7 @@ If you need special options to boot your images see $IMAGEOPTS and $ISOOPTS in /etc/default/grub-imageboot.conf. + +If you want to boot a Debian live image, you may need to append +"findiso=/boot/images/NameOfYour.iso" to the kernel command line in the +boot loader of your image.
