Hi

I'm looking for a software solution that will allow me to boot into any partition on my hard-drive.

I have a SATA 1TB Seagate hard disk drive.

I will be having around 9 operating systems on my 1TB hard-drive, and if anything goes wrong, I want to be able to access any partition via a disc (I don't have a floppy drive).

Can someone please recommend me a LiveCD capable of GRUB, Lilo or BCD?

By this I mean that I would like a LiveCD capable of booting to ANY partition on my hard-drive.

The software I would like it to use for this, is either GRUB (preferred), Lilo or BCD.

I'm especially interested in booting into GRUB for this, as I will be installing 9 different operating systems, and would like to be able to (hopefully) use the same menu.lst that the GRUB menu within my MBR will be using.

Please recommend a BootCD/LiveCD for this.

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

I would say you can boot to any partition with a USB stick that invokes features of GRUB4DOS. Either DOS based and grub or Windows based and grldr. In that the OS requirements will be minimal in either case a very small USB stick is all that's needed. I don't know of any preconfigured system that does either but building your own should be quite easy.

1st case: the partition-bootsector contains any boot-code, for example WIN or DOS, and the desired OS supports to be booted from this partition. You can call it via:

2nd case: it's a LINUX-system, but you have another (or this one, which comes with this distribution) GRUB installed to it's own root-partition (not in MBR, this would override the "common-GRUB"): same as 1st

3rd case: it's a LINUX-system with no own GRUB: you should know KERNEL's name and location and needed neccessary parameters (and same for INITRD):

MfG, FM_81

Thanks. If you find one that is capable, please tell me.

Otherwise I might buy a 1GB sometime for just that.



Hmm... thanks.

Here's the list, in case you were interested;

1. Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6
2. Linux
3. Linux
4. Server 2003
5. Windows Vista 64-bit
6. Windows 7 64-bit
7. Solaris
8. FreeBSD
9. OpenSolaris

If you have the time, can you please write out the whole (or at least an example of One) for each Operating system listed above into a menu.lst file?

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

@Panarchy
I replied to your similar thread on boot-land:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=6951&hl=

jaclaz

1.: Sorry, my knowledge of this moves against zero!
2. and 3.: you should know kernels and INITRD's name and insert in 'menu.lst' or have an own GRUB for these two + chainload
4. and 5. and 6.: Chainload should work, but I have none of these systems (and maybe I'm never will) - couldn't test it
7. and 8. and 9.: I'd be glad, to know more about, but never had the time

MfG, FM_81

thanks man

i'hope this link it's already

However, after thinking about it for a while, I've decided again DOS4WIN. As I don't think I can replace it with Solaris's GRUB, which supports booting into ZFS partitions.

Can someone please recommend a Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris/OpenSolaris based LiveCD that has a GRUB feature, which I can replace/edit with my own menu.lst (and, if Linux or FreeBSD based, one that I can replace with my GRUB folder from Solaris/OpenSolaris).

Thanks in advance for this BootCD/LiveCD suggestion,

Panarchy

This sounds like a homework assignment.

Hahahaha, LOL!

Well this year I will be doing entirely self-study (plus whatever I learn on the job!).



So no more homework! (not like I did it 2 years ago when I was in school)



So do you have any ideas of BootCDs or LiveCDs that will enable me to boot into any partition on my hard-drive? (preferably GRUB from a BootCD/LiveCD)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

Panarchy