On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:01:35 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> In the past I've used the `grub-imageboot` package for that. Aha! Thank you. Near as I can tell, somewhere along the line the kernel and initrd are extracted from the (CD|DVD|diskette) image. My software doesn't even require that. Grub will reach into an ISO for them at boot time if you ask it politely. On brief investigation, this seems to require a lot of undocumented manual work to get things set up; I've automated a lot of that. The package is rather sparse on documentation, though. > AFAICT it requires you put the `.iso` files in `/boot/images/` which > is impractical for large ISOs, so maybe you could try and contribute > your code to that package. Not required; one can change that in /etc/default/grub-imageboot. One would have to in order to get the images onto their own isolated partition, one of the things I've done. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
