Booting antiX with Grub 2

bat999 · posted: 2012-05-31 22:39

Hi
There's a thread running on Ubuntu Forum"ISO Booting with Grub 2.
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(This method is not the same as a"frugal install").

There's some information too in the antiX wiki and also in the Mepis wiki.

Here is the GRUB2 menuentry that works for me.
(Tested with antiX M12 Pre-Final)

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menuentry"antiX ISO" {
isofile="/boot/iso/antiX-486.iso"
loopback loop $isofile
linux (loop)/antiX/vmlinuz fromiso=$isofile fromhd=/dev/sda1 quiet noxorg nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0 tz=Europe/London lang=uk
initrd (loop)/antiX/initrd.gz
}

Note.
"fromhd=/dev/sda1"
This is needed so that antiX looks for the iso on my hard drive instead of CD or USB.
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anticapitalista · posted: 2012-05-31 23:09

Thanks for that bat999.

As you say, this is for booting the iso. Does adding the persist cheat (once persistence is set up) allow for persistence to work? I don't have grub2 anywhere to test this out.

bat999 · posted: 2012-06-01 00:48

anticapitalista wrote:Does adding the persist cheat (once persistence is set up) allow for persistence to work?

Hi
I haven't tried to use persistence when booting any iso with GRUB2 so far, though it was discussed in the Ubuntu thread.

I think this GRUB2 iso method is intended as a 'cheap and cheerful' method to trial distros without burning CDs.
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