Re: booting trouble
Posted: 12. Jul 2012, 21:33
I don't get your point here. If we switched to that other version of isohybrid, we wouldn't anymore need isolinux as an intermediate bootloader like beforehand. Instead the ISO would get booted exactly as with pre-Mate releases. So the grub eltorito image would get loaded directly and booting from cdrom would work as previously on mimosa's hardware.JRD wrote:Yes I figure it out reading the perl code (and reading perl documentation because I'm not a perl guru) and reading the sh script for it's distribution.
About better than isolinux, I think it's quite the same, except we will need core.img on the CD. So if anyone wants to install this on a USB key without using isohybrid, he will not have the choice to use syslinux or another bootloader. He will need to install grub2 on that disk and that will lead to the same exact problems we had before. Chainloading to grub2 is a better option (from syslinux, isolinux, lilo, whatever) in my opinion.
For USB booting (by dd'ing) we would need a core.img but that image wouldn't require a memdisk as there is no intermediate bootloader and thus the boot device gets passed on. So in that case cdrom booting and usb booting with unetbootin/install-on-USB would work exactly as previously with the eltorito resp. g2l.img. Just isohyrid booting through the dd method would require a new procedure and a small additional core.img file.
Anyway, we should just try this out. But I won't get to this before the end of this month due to exams.
