ISO boot from FAT/NTFS/USB (GRUB.exe, grldr from boot.ini)

[utu]

When I click on any of gilles' links that begin 'html' and end in '.gz',
one of my cpus goes to 100% and X is locked-up, maybe indefinitely.
I got tired at five minutes and restarted x.

I presume the discussion has to do with some worthy revisions of the init
within the minirt.gz of Knoppix, or something like that.
I'd like to follow that, if that's what it is.

I'll need to counter this lock-up effect if I am to learn much about
what's going on. I wasn't expecting that to be necessary.

Listing the product in the present form is counter-productive, if the
objective is for all forum members to be able to comfortably participate
in the exposition.

[ruymbeke]

Hi Utu,
Instead of just clicking on the link try the "save link as" option (after a mouse right click on the link).
For some reason your web browser is trying to do something with this cpio compressed initrd file.
This alternate boot ramdisk is backward compatible and adds functionality to the default Knoppix initrd.
Even though Klaus already added some of my improvements in his latest init script (look for #@@@GvR)
there are still some features that I like (and I need) which are missing and since I thought that some
other people may also be interested in them, I just offer to share the result of my wok in here.
The extra features are: boot from iso, also via nfs or samba/cifs, if typo in iso path (wrong partition)
search for and use alternate location, add some kernel module to support Knoppix as a guest virtual machine,
add kernel modules for (pxe) network boot, allow to use custom cloops located within the same directory
as the iso file (also works with nfs and samba/cifs network boot) by looking for and executing local knoppix.sh,
allows for custom data persistence (within a specific local partition as an example), dynamic hostname (based on
either date/time or MAC address) to avoid duplicate hostnames on the same network, ... just to name a few.
Please find below my menu.lst as an example of my grub config file:
http://s94002264.onlinehome.us/grub/...ample_menu.lst
Hope this helps.
Best Regards,
Gilles

[utu]

Hi, Gilles.

Thanks for reminding me how to bring this stuff in.
I'm anxious to see what you've done.

Best Regards.