[gPXE] gPXE booting an .iso image

[Joakim Schicht]

The only workaround I can think of is gPXE booting a stripped down Win/WinPE that boots directly into your linux.iso through virtualization software. Then Windows took care of the hooking and linux did not know it was actually running in ram. It would of course add substantially to the boot time and required ram, and may not be very easy to configure quickly. If it was for installing linux locally, then it would be pointless. Very likely no one would bother with this, at least I can't think of any good reason (except for the fun of testing and verification).

 

At least it works with vmware.

 

Joakim Schicht
 


Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 15:24:27 -0700
From: lucarx76 at gmail.com
To: Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca
CC: gpxe at etherboot.org
Subject: Re: [gPXE] gPXE booting an .iso image

Oh ok, thanks a lot.

So there is no way to gPXE a Linux .iso image yet, right?

Thanks,
 Luca 


On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Miller, Shao <Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca> wrote:

Good day Luca,

There is not yet a MEMDISK driver for Linux, so your .ISO file in RAM
will not be available when Linux is running.  Linux doesn't use BIOS INT
13h for disk access, which is what MEMDISK hooks.

- Shao Miller

 		 	   		  
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