[TriLUG] Multiboot CD Question

[Neil L. Little]

Of course if you use grub2 you can multiboot each iso from the grub menu.

73
Neil, WA4AZL


Roy Vestal wrote:
> True. Didn't think about that. Oh well. Too late. I already built it ;)
>
> Maybe ver 0.1.1 :D
>
> On 3/22/10 11:28 AM, Bill Farrow wrote:
>>> On 3/22/10 9:46 AM, Roy Vestal wrote:
>>>> I used the CentOS LiveCD howto and minimal kickstart for the LiveCD. I
>>>> added 'dmidecode' and 'pciutils' to the kickstart packages. I also 
>>>> created a
>>>> post install to add "prtdiag" script to the disk. I had to modify the
>>>> prtdiag a little to get it to do what I wanted. Here are the links:
>> If this CD is a just a tool for gathering diagnostic information, you
>> can probably do this with a single 32bit (i386) bootable kernel and
>> filesystem which should run on both 32bit and 64bit "Intel x86"
>> architectures.
>>
>> Once booted into Linux you can read the CPU flags from /proc/cpuinfo
>> to work out if the CPU supports 64 bit ("lm" flag). For example, in a
>> bash script you could do this:
>>
>> if [ `grep -E -w "lm" /proc/cpuinfo | head -n 1 | wc -l` -eq 1 ];
>> then echo 64bit; else echo 32bit; fi
>>
>> Of course you could adapt this script to do other actions, like
>> automating which HDD image to fetch from a server, etc.
>>
>> Bill
>