Re: Booting iso's via grml-rescueboot gen'd GRUB2 config files

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:40:17 -0700 (PDT)
Firstname Lastname <address@hidden> пишет:

> 
> Fundamentally, the 'iso_path' does not include the '(disk,part)' designation, 
> which has actually been assigned to 'root' [root='hd0,msdos7']; but is not 
> being used. So, give me some feedback. Why has the '(disk,part)' not been 
> included into the 'iso_path', and thus the 'loop' statement identifier?

Because if path name does not include device designation, value of
$root is implicitly used as device.

>  Is the current value of 'iso_path' a robust enough source identifier,
 otherwise? (i.e. can they be found at boot time)? If so, then what
 else can be wrestled with to get this feature working with newly
 downloaded iso's, and Grub2 tools?
> 
> Sláinte,
> 
> odoncaoa