I searched for some info about using grub as the liveCD boot-loader and
heard it's not so efficient in some systems. The point is that dyne:bolic also
uses isolinux, so I thought it should work with debian too. I read the boot
messages from dyne and found out that it seeks for a .kmods file in the hard
drive after mounting it (the kmods in dyne stores it's kernel modules. The
kernel it self goes into a file with .krn extension). The user is then asked if
the system should use the existent dock or keep booting from the liveCD.
Something similar happens with the .nst file (where the nested user files and
settings are stored). The system asks if it should activate it or not. I'm not
trying here to compare features or something, I just want to point out some
good things from this other distro that turn a liveCD into a much more powerful
system to be used as a portable workstation. So, any more ideas?
Thanks,
Ricardo
This should be possible if the boot loader on the CD is grub, and you're
prepared to edit the boot command-line at boot time. Or prepare that
entry in advance by editing the templates, I guess.
I'm not exactly sure how to do that with syslinux/isolinux .
Or use a USB key. Most computers today can boot from one, though it may
be less trivial to set one up. The upside is that it is now trivial to
edit the configuration of the boot loader to point to whereever you
want.
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