On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:09 AM, don fong <df...@dfong.com> wrote: > question: how can i boot the livecd distro from a > hard disk partition, hopefully with the persistent > option? i have found a lot of pages > describing how to do this with a USB stick, but > i have not been able to find clear instructions on > how to do the equivalent thing with a regular > disk partition. > > i have the fedora livecd iso image file on my disk. > i can mount it under linux. is there a way to > boot the iso file directly, without wasting a CD? > > or to make another disk partition boot the livecd distro?
You need a separate partition if your rootfs is on LVM since livecd initrd doesn't start LVM. Loop mount the ISO and copy isolinux/vmlinuz0 and isolinux/initrd0.img to /boot and LiveOS folder to / (or top-folder of the separate partition) Then add grub entry for livecd (assuming separate /boot partition and sda2 partition with /LiveOS) kernel /vmlinuz0 ro root=/dev/sda2 initrd /initrd0.img -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list