I am playing with a new laptop, and before touching its partitions I wanted to use the bootfrom cheatcode to boot from the ISO image. I am using a Dell Inspiron 9400, which has a SATA hard disk which comes with Windows on its second partition. I created /grml/boot in C:\ with the contents of isolinux from the cd, and copied grub.iso to C:\
This is from my menu.lst from GRUB residing on a NTFS partition:
default=0 timeout=7
title "grml" root (hd0,1) kernel /grml/boot/linux26 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=it apm=power-off vga=791 nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=grml bootfrom=/dev/sda2/GRML.ISO initrd /grml/boot/minirt26.gz
I can reach my GRUB menu, and kernel and initrd seem to load. Then I reach the place where the script looks for GRML in /dev/hd*, and my image is not found. Of course, I am then left at a minimal prompt. If I boot from the CD I can see the contents of the hard disk.
What to do to let the kernel find the ISO? Thanks to everyone Roberto