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I was curious if anyone has gotten any of these to boot from grub4dos? Ive tried GhostBSD which has a gnome interface and the ability to install from said distro but im running into a problem with the vfs emulation. Has anyone else gotten another BSD related distro to boot successfully from grub4dos? If so please post the menu.lst entry in a reply. Thanks (:

You're welcome. I actually added this to my liveUSB as well. (:

The entry you posted earlier: menuentry "Ubuntu Live 9.10 32bit" { loopback loop /boot/iso/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/boot/iso/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso noeject noprompt -- initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz } try adding file=/preseed/ubuntu.seed before the boot=casper And see if that works.. The changed entry should look like: menuentry "Ubuntu LiveDVD 11.04 32bit" { loopback loop /boot/iso/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/boot/iso/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso quiet splash locale=en.UTF-8 -- initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz } You should also have the ubuntu desktop iso in /boot/iso that being ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso .. You should really read http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?showtopic=14105 and http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?showtopic=14179 . You arent going to learn by people chewing your food for you...

Really? The script he setup makes it extremely easy. It strips out the crap from VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.0.0-469512.x86_64.iso and VMware-VMvisor-InstallerCD-3.5.0_Update_5-207095.i386.iso and creates an iso called: moa-esxi-rescue-cd.iso There is a app called imgdisk which i use. it mounts isos on the fly and allows for modification of said ISO (on the fly) if need be. Link here: ImgDisk Why did i bring this up? Well once you have created the iso (moa-esxi-rescue-cd.iso) from the script in make-moa-esxi-rescue-cd.zip you can mount it with ImDisk. Right clicking on the iso in the file manager and selecting "Mount as ImDisk Virtual Disk" it will pop up a dialog box just click ok as the default settings will work fine. Once you mount it a drive will appear called MOA-ESXI-RESCUE. in that virtual CD you will notice two files esxi35-live.iso and esxi50-live.iso and a grub for dos menu.lst which gives you an idea how you are going to set this up on your USB... this is the entries on the menu.lst.. title run ESXi 5.0 from CD find --set-root --ignore-floppies /esxi50-live.iso map /esxi50-live.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) title run ESXi 3.5 from CD find --set-root --ignore-floppies /esxi35-live.iso map /esxi35-live.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) So all i did was copy the two isos from that virtual drive to the directory that holds my isos on my usb drive and changed the entries on my menu.lst to: title run ESXi 5.0 from CD\nnote the root password is: sanbarrow find --set-root --ignore-floppies /system/images/esxi50-live.iso map /system/images/esxi50-live.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) title run ESXi 3.5 from CD\nnote the root password is: sanbarrow find --set-root --ignore-floppies /system/images/esxi35-live.iso map /system/images/esxi35-live.iso (hd32) map --hook chainloader (hd32) I was able to boot both of these with no issues. Any issues with that script you are going to have to post on that forum and not here.. I also looked through the iso VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.0.0-469512.x86_64.iso and its a total clusterfuck (All these module loads...) so i think this is why the guy from that forum post figured out a more elegant / easy way to get this running..

Dont you mean 11.04? From the entries it looks like its pointing to the old iso: /boot/iso/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso Have you changed those entries to reflect the name of the new iso?

Did you actually check http://communities.vmware.com/thread/327126 ?

Cool. It requires you to register.. f that s ... You may want to check the link here since it looks like someone has a working boot for esxi: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/327126

Which live CD is this from? If you can provide a link i can poke around while someone else replies. Also provide what bootloader you are using. Easiest way to get this done is using imagemagick. If you are using windows you will need to grab the binary from here: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows Depending on your unix distro its as easy as emerge/yum/apt-get im assuming you're using windoze so the above will be fine. If you plan on doing any modifications to a image do so and save as a jpg/png or whatever.. I generally do it this way since that's the final image and its the second to the last step before the conversion. last you would either drop to a shell or cmdprompt and run convert whateveryoucalledyourimage.jpg -resize 640x480 -colors 14 -depth 8 imagenameyouwant.xpm.gz Copy the xpm.gz'd image to wherever you store your images on the usb and make sure that location is reflected in the bootloader. In my case im using grub4dos so this is a example of my root menu.lst splashimage (hd0,0)/system/wall/tasty.brisket.xpm.gz

Can you elaborate on your setup since Grub2 isnt the bootloader initially used in the Multi-pass Elaboration as in starting with the conf file you used to boot the iso from grub2. Your posting was vague since it doesnt provide any information on your original installation and your expecting people who read this post to read your mind :) I figured id post with something to get the ball rolling since i know how annoying it is to not get replies on something thats obviously stumping you. What i can do is include my entry for grub4dos that works fine for me.. title Ubuntu Desktop\nv11.04 Desktop Install LiveCD Disk\nhttp://www.ubuntu.com/support\nThis will map to memory so will take a bit to load map --mem /sisstem/segami/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso (0xff) map --hook root (0xff) kernel /casper/vmlinuz file=/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/sisstem/segami/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso quiet splash locale=en.UTF-8 initrd /casper/initrd.lz boot Hope this helps.. D|g|ta|

My Laptops running Gentoo but i wanted to run pentoo and the latest gentoo live DVD. Im sure there are more elaborate ways of getting this done but this one does the trick for me.. If you are working with a couple other distros you might want to make a directory for staging or whatever.. First grab the initramfs file usually in the boot directory or the isolinux directory of the distro. For gentoo releases ive only see it named gentoo.igz or gentoo64.igz.. copy it to your staging area.. rename the gentoo.igz to gentoo.gz.. uncompress the file.. gzip -d gentoo.gz unpack.. cpio -i < gentoo.gz example: mindfuck staging # ls -la total 20 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 3 11:30 . drwxr-xr-x 108 root root 4096 Sep 2 15:57 .. drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Sep 2 15:33 gentoo.11.gentoo.igz drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 30 11:31 mindfuck drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 pentoo mindfuck staging # pwd /root/staging mindfuck staging # Ill use pentoo as an example: mindfuck staging # cd pentoo/ mindfuck pentoo # ls -l total 60 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 dev drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 etc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17708 Sep 2 18:31 init drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 2 18:31 lib64 -&gt; lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Sep 2 18:31 linuxrc -&gt; init drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 proc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 sys drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 temp drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 usr drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 var mindfuck pentoo # At first i thought the script i needed was init but it ended up being initrd.scripts in etc: mindfuck etc # ls -la total 52 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 . drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97 Sep 2 18:31 fstab -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1796 Sep 2 18:31 initrd.defaults -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29244 Sep 2 18:32 initrd.scripts drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 18:31 modules mindfuck etc # This is the entry i changed to reflect the file gentoo looks for when you set the "cdrom" flag in the kernel boot on grub4dos.. : bootstrapCD() { local DEVICES=`devicelist` # The device was specified on the command line, so there's no need to scan # a bunch of extra devices [ -n "${CDROOT_DEV}" ] &amp;&amp; DEVICES="${CDROOT_DEV}" findmediamount "cdrom" "${SUBDIR}/pentoo" "REAL_ROOT" "${NEW_ROOT}" ${DEVICES} } You will notice the pentoo entry there.. Just rename the livecd file to whatever you want and make sure its placed in that entry.. save, then back out to where init is (/root/staging/pentoo for this example) Now we need to repack the file: find . | cpio -H newc -o &gt; ../gentoo.cpio cd .. gzip -9 gentoo.cpio -c &gt; gentoo.igz Copy it back to where you grabbed it from. For pentoo it was in isolinux copy the livecd file to / and rename it to what you set it to in initrd.scripts As i said ive got pentoo and the latest live dvd running on my usb boot.. Hope this helps someone who enjoys gentoo as much as i do..

With all due respect the episode only showed how to get it up and running pointing here to get more information here. I would say stick with grub4dos as this has been the easiest for me and i didnt want to mess with syslinux. Ive had to search out the information which is probably what you should do. Having someone else chew your food for you is fine if you just want something up quickly and you dont plan on fixing it later. Most of what you request is possible and if you do a search there are examples of what you are requesting. i did notice that people did indeed get the cd to boot but didnt bother to go the extra mile and test if it actually located the filesystem.squashfs Each distro has its own idiosyncrasies and some dont follow the path-media-file kernel option (among other options) Ill leave you with some linkage to read up on.. grub4dos (reading the README_GRUB4DOS.txt that comes with grub4dos as well..): http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/Grub4dos.htm http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/basics.htm http://www.themudcrab.com/acronis_grub4dos.php Multibooting USB : http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=18846&hl= USB Multi-pass: http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?showtopic=14105&st=20 memdisk (allow booting legacy operating systems) http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK Misc: http://www.instantfundas.com/2007/08/install-any-linux-distro-directly-from.html http://www.w7forums.com/tips-using-grub4dos-install-windows-7-usb-storage-t6272.html http://ccobb.net/demos/liveusb/ http://grml.org/online-docs/live-initramfs.en.7.html http://diddy.boot-land.net/firadisk/files/imdisk.htm http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions http://code.google.com/p/grub4dos-chenall/downloads/detail?name=grub4dos-0.4.5b-2011-07-24.7z <<Latest grub4dos http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs Hope this helps.

Hope this helps as well. I dont like my / being cluttered so i generally boot from /boot/<distro> . "live-media-path=" is the key :) examples: title Start BackTrack FrameBuffer (1024x768) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/vmlinuz live-media-path=/boot/bt5/casper file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper txt splash vga=0x317 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/initrd.gz title Start BackTrack in Stealth Mode\nStealth mod No Networking Enabled.. kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/vmlinuz live-media-path=/boot/bt5/casper file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper txt splash staticip vga=0x317 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/initrds.gz title Start BackTrack in Safe Graphical Mode kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/vmlinuz live-media-path=/boot/bt5/casper file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper splash xforcevesa vga=0x317 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/initrd.gz title Start BackTrack noDRM\nNo DRM Drivers kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/vmlinuz live-media-path=/boot/bt5/casper file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper txt splash nomodeset vga=0x317 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/initrd.gz title Start BackTrack Debug\nSafeMode kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/vmlinuz live-media-path=/boot/bt5/casper file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper txt splash vga=0x317 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/bt5/casper/initrd.gz

On a related note im running tails (http://tails.boum.org/about/index.en.html) You might find interesting as well..

I dont think that will replace the 2wire DSL modem. Im looking elsewhere for answers and will reply back with additional info.. Thanks for the help thou :)

You could use find from the GNU linux ports ( http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ) with the mtime switch to remove files. I have a 3rdparty directory where i place these the find.exe will need to be renamed to something else. But you get the idea.. Im not sure what Windoze version you are running but if you have powershell installed there is a way to automate this as well.. just my .02 cents :)