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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1102211004290.7475@pno.zgrrtr.qr>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:14:10 +0100 (CET)
From: Matthias Teege <matthias-owl-users@...ege.de>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: How to make Owl installation USB flash drive

On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, gremlin@...mlin.ru wrote:

Moin,

> I wrote a short article about ${subject} at our wiki:
> http://openwall.info/wiki/Owl/USB_drive
> 
> Questions, comments, additions and thanks are accepted.

Many thanks.

It would be nice, if we could boot "direct" from the iso with grub2. I've 
tried:

menuentry "Owl i686" {
  loopback loop /boot/iso/Owl-3.0-release-i686.iso
  linux (loop)/boot/vmlinuz findiso=/boot/iso/Owl-3.0-release-i686.iso single rootfstype=iso9660 root=/dev/cdrom rootdelay=30 --
}

but it gives me "cannot read linux header". Maybe Owl cannot use a cdrom 
as root devices.

I can boot something like Tinycore with:

menuentry "Tinycore 3.5" {
 loopback loop /boot/iso/tinycore_3.5.iso
 linux (loop)/boot/bzImage --
 initrd (loop)/boot/tinycore.gz
}

Thanks
Matthias

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