[issue1129] grml iso doesn't boot via USB disk

[Ulrich Dangel]

Ulrich Dangel <mru at grml.org> added the comment:

JFTR the code supporting the findiso paramter (live-boot-grml) was released on December the 6th.

That being said i tried to recreate your problem with the current release but was unsuccessful. I even extracted all the 
files and just booted with 

 kvm -kernel /tmp/vmlinuz -initrd /tmp/initrd.img -append …

and created luksDevices. Everything worked OOTB.


After examining your bug report i think your bootoptions are wrong. The live-media-path contains nowadays the release name. 
So it should be something like live-media-path=/live/grml64/

Please be aware that manually using your setup like you did in grub.cfg is highly discouraged. If you want to integrate a 
grml iso into your Grub environment use loopback.cfg


menuentry "grml bootmenu" {
        iso_path="path_to_iso_image" 
        export iso_path
        kernelopts="  KERNEL_OPTIONS "
        export kernelopts
        loopback loop "path_to_iso_image"
        set root=(loop)
        configfile /boot/grub/loopback.cfg
}

If you don't want to do that please directly include the grml config menus:


menuentry "my grml" {
        iso_path="path_to_iso_image" 
        export iso_path
        kernelopts="  KERNEL_OPTIONS "
        export kernelopts
        loopback loop "path_to_iso_image"
        set root=(loop)
        set loopback="findiso=${iso_path}"
        export loopback
        configfile /boot/grub/grml64_default.cfg
}

Please reply if changing live-media-path solves your problem.

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files: grml-hwinfo-2012-01-05--17-55-53-CET.tar.bz2
messages: 4200, 4254, 4260, 4264
nosy: jean-luc
priority: bug
status: need-eg
title: grml iso doesn't boot via USB disk

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