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June 8, 2014 at 5:25 am #43963
turtle
MemberGreetings I am interested in trying Zeroshell however I have a box already running Linux with grub1, no usb boot in bios and no cdrom.
I tried to use dd to put zeroshell on a logical partition and point grub to it but that did not work.
Then I realized you probably have it partitioned already so unzipping the file and looking at it with fdisk I see there a are 4 partitions:Disk /root/zeroshell/ZeroShell-3.0.0-Disk-2GB.img: 2017 MB, 2017419264 bytes, 3940272 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcf5090fb
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/root/zeroshell/ZeroShell-3.0.0-Disk-2GB.img1 2048 432127 215040 83 Linux
/root/zeroshell/ZeroShell-3.0.0-Disk-2GB.img2 432128 1087487 327680 83 Linux
/root/zeroshell/ZeroShell-3.0.0-Disk-2GB.img3 1087488 1742847 327680 83 Linux
/root/zeroshell/ZeroShell-3.0.0-Disk-2GB.img4 1742848 3940271 1098712 5 Extended
/root/zeroshell/ZeroShell-3.0.0-Disk-2GB.img5 1744896 3842047 1048576 83 Linux
Can I mount these from the img file to check them out? Is there any info/docs on what these are for or how to custom dual boot *nix?
I would like to use the existing boot loader on the hdd and point it to a zero shell root partition, if thats possible.
thanks
turtleEDIT tuesday June 10th.
Note to others following this path
You can mount the iso on say /mnt/zer:mount -o loop ZeroShell-3.0.0.iso /mnt/zer/
And look in
ls isolinux/
for the kernel info.
Then in grub2 on your HDD:
menuentry "ZeroShell (isoloop)" {
set root=(hd1,1)
search --fs-uuid --set=root your-uuid-ofhdd-here
loopback loop /ZeroShell-3.0.0.iso
linux (loop)/isolinux/vmlinuz isoloop=ZeroShell-3.0.0.iso root=?
initrd (loop)/isolinux/initrd.img
}
Assuming you can drop ZeroShell-3.0.0.iso at / on disk2 partition1
EDIT 2 June 10th 14:10
OK but what is the root device?
I can get it to boot using my /dev/sda1 root device but that boots the OS on /dev/sda1 -
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