Friday 7 December 2012

Grub2, Grub4Dos: Config files

Iso booting is awesome. Make a thumbdrive bootable with syslinux/isolinux. Load on grub2 and grub4dos then just place your favorite livecd's iso on the drive and boot from it.

For more information check out Reboot.Pro

Just for reference here are my config files for Syslinux, Grub2 and Grub4Dos

grub.cfg

<------------------------------------------------------->

 timeout=0
default=1

insmod part_gpt
insmod part_msdos
insmod fat
insmod ext2
insmod memdisk
insmod jpeg
insmod gfxterm
insmod efi_gop

loadfont /efi/grub/fonts/unicode.pf2
set gfxmode=auto
set gfxmode=keep
terminal_output gfxterm
terminal gfxterm

use_bg=true
background_image /efi/grub/themes/RedPower.jpg

set menu_color_normal=black/black
set menu_color_highlight=light-red/black
set color_normal=red/black
set timeout=5

menuentry 'Parted Magic LiveCD'{
loopback loop /isos/pmagic_2012_10_10.iso
linux (loop)/pmagic/bzImage iso_filename="/isos/pmagic_2012_10_10.iso" directory=/isos edd=off load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw loglevel=9 max_loop=256 vmalloc=288MiB
initrd (loop)/pmagic/initrd.img
}

menuentry 'BackBox 64bit LiveCD' {
set isofile="/isos/backbox-3.0-i386.iso"
loopback loop /isos/backbox-3.0-amd64.iso
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/isos/backbox-3.0-amd64.iso noprompt noeject
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.gz
}

menuentry 'Mint Cinnamon 64bit LiveCD' {
set isofile="/isos/linuxmint-13-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso"
loopback loop /isos/linuxmint-13-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/mint.seed boot=casper initrd=initrd.lz iso-scan/filename=/isos/linuxmint-13-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso noeject noprompt splash --
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}

menuentry 'ArchBoot LiveCD 64bit 2012-10-1' {
loopback loop /isos/archlinux-2012.10-1-archboot-dual.iso
linux (loop)/boot/vmlinuz_x86_64 acpi=off
initrd (loop)/boot/initramfs_x86_64.img
}

submenu 'Utilities and 32bit' {

menuentry 'ArchBoot LiveCD 32bit 2012-10-1' {
loopback loop /isos/archlinux-2012.10-1-archboot-dual.iso
linux (loop)/boot/vmlinuz_32 acpi=off
initrd (loop)/boot/initramfs_32.img
}

menuentry 'BackBox 32bit LiveCD' {
set isofile="/isos/backbox-3.0-i386.iso"
loopback loop /isos/backbox-3.0-i386.iso
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/isos/backbox-3.0-i386.iso noprompt noeject
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.gz
}

menuentry 'Other Live CDs'{
linux /EFI/grub4dos/grub.exe --config-file="/EFI/grub4dos/menu.lst"
}

}

menuentry 'Refind' {
exit
}

menuentry 'Restart' {
        reboot
}

menuentry 'Shutdown' {
        halt
}

<---------------------------------------------------------------------->

menu.lst

<------------------------------------------------------------------------->


color green/black black/green green/black green/black
timeout 30

title Win7PE User
 map /isos/win7PE_SEV4User.ISO (hd32)
 chainloader (hd0,0)+1
 map --hook
 chainloader (hd32)
 boot

title Win7PE Tools
 map /isos/win7PE_SEV4Tools.ISO (hd32)
 chainloader (hd0,0)+1
 map --hook
 chainloader (hd32)
 boot

title Boot 1st HD
 chainloader (hd0)+1
 rootnoverify (hd0)

title Boot 2nd HD
 chainloader (hd1)+1
 rootnoverify (hd1)

title Boot 3rd HD
 chainloader (hd2)+1
 rootnoverify (hd2)

title Kon-Boot v2.0
 map --mem /isos/kon-bootFloppy.img (fd0)
 map --hook
 chainloader (fd0)+1
 map (hd1) (hd0)
 map --hook
 rootnoverify (fd0)

title Share the Box
 find --set-root /isos/STBmc.iso
 map --mem /isos/STBmc.iso (hd32)
 map --hook
 map --status
 chainloader (hd32)

title Ultimate Boot CD 5.11
 find --set-root /isos/ubcd511.iso
 map /isos/ubcd511.iso (hd32)
 map --hook
 chainloader (hd32)

title G4L
 find --set-root /isos/g4l-v0.37.iso
 map /isos/g4l-v0.37.iso (0xff)
 map --hook
 chainloader (0xff)

title Main Menu
 chainloader (hd0)+1

title Reboot
 reboot

title Halt
 halt

title Command-line
 commandline

<----------------------------------------------------------->

syslinux.cfg

<------------------------------------------------------------>

UI menu.32
Prompt 0

MENU TITLE Boot Menu
TIMEOUT 20
Default Grub2

label Grub2
menu label Grub2
COM32 chain.c32
append file=/boot/grub/i386-pc/boot.img

label Grub4Dos
menu label Grub4Dos
kernel /EFI/grub4dos/grub.exe

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