sermat Posted February 4, 2007 Report Share Posted February 4, 2007 Hi: Here are the details: I have Mandriva 2007 installed on my PC. Now, I'd like to modify its lilo.conf so to be able to boot Metisse from its iso image located somewhere on the hard drive. Is that possible? Regards, sernat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Techically, I'd say, probably yes. What you'd have to do now that I think about it, is: get the bootloaded part out of the iso, modify it so that it will be able to read your filesystem, mount the iso image as a cdrom drive and use it, place the modified bootloading part somewhere on your filesystem, point lilo/grub to it, done. To be honest, personally I'd just burn the cd and spin it up.... it will certainly save you a lot of frustration, time and effort... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 You can boot the iso in an emulated qemu environment from within mdv2007 by running: $ qemu -cdrom filename.iso The above assumes you are in the directory with "filename.iso" and you have qemu installed. You can find the qemu rpm in the contrib repo for mdv2007 IIRC. At any rate, I use qemu all the time to check out livecds and see if I want to bother to burn the iso. It comes in very handy. The qemu window will steal the mouse focus as soon as it comes up and to get it back you do Ctrl-Alt and you can use your mouse on your regular desktop while qemu boots up the iso within its window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sermat Posted February 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Thanks pmpatrick !!! I cannot wait to get home and try what you suggested. THANKS. Just to mention that I tried "everything under the sun" to boot metisse from its iso without qemu, i.e, by just fiddling with grub of my existing linux distro, but to no success!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Unfortunately, if it's metisse you want, it's going to run terribly/not at all under qemu. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sermat Posted February 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 iphitus: yes, you are absolutely correct. I just got home and booted metisse using qemu, and I didn't put a stop watch on it, but it took maybe 10 + minutes just to get the login screen (and this is a 2.4 GHz PIV machine. By the way, what is the login username/password for Metisse? Any way, my thanks go to pmpatrick for pointing me to try qemu, which i had never tried before. Regards to all, sermat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 The username and password are "guest" IIRC; at least that's what mandriva has used on prior livecds. I downloaded and tried running metisse under quemu and it didn't work. I got to a login screen but it would just grind away for a long time after an attempted login and eventually dump me back to the login screen. Apparently, the emulated graphics card in qemu doesn't have the horses to run metisse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sermat Posted February 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Thanks pmpatrick. Actually, this is ***exactly*** what I got also. That's why I asked about the login name, because I thought that the "guest" was incorrect. Many thanks, and best regards, sermat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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