Cows
June 13th, 2007, 01:27 AM
Originally I was talking about this idea in this thread <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2782036#post2782036">here</a>.
Now what I want to do is exactly as the title says which is adding the text-mode feature from alternative cd to the desktop cd. This will enable me to boot up a gui or text mode anything time I want via cd. A optional option is to add the server install ( core ) to the cd.
Now I have been analyzing both the Desktop CD and the Alternative.
Desktop CD
- Boots up DEFAULT /casper/vmlinuz
LABEL live
menu label ^Start or install Ubuntu
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash --
- Notice the boot=casper and splash
- There's a casper folder in the Desktop CD for the vmlinuz <-- boot ?
Alternative CD
- Boots up DEFAULT /install/vmlinuz
LABEL install
menu label ^Install in text mode
kernel /install/vmlinuz
append file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed initrd=/install/initrd.gz quiet --
- Notice there's no boot=casper and no splash ( no splash screen )
- There's no casper folder but the casper content has been moved over the the /install directory.
My hypothesis is that the vmlinuz or something in the /install folder of the alternative is different then what's in the /casper folder of the Desktop CD.
I have been trying to burn a BOOTABLE .iso file with the same symlinks etc as the Alternative but I cannot get it to boot using brasero ( burn data cd ) .. I looked for a Make CD Bootable option but that doesn't work neither.
Also brasero filters out the symlinks and hidden files .. I disabled the Brasero to filter out the hidden files and symlinks but for some reason it still thinks that the /ubuntu symlink is a broken symlink and is filters it out anyways.
Any help?
Now what I want to do is exactly as the title says which is adding the text-mode feature from alternative cd to the desktop cd. This will enable me to boot up a gui or text mode anything time I want via cd. A optional option is to add the server install ( core ) to the cd.
Now I have been analyzing both the Desktop CD and the Alternative.
Desktop CD
- Boots up DEFAULT /casper/vmlinuz
LABEL live
menu label ^Start or install Ubuntu
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash --
- Notice the boot=casper and splash
- There's a casper folder in the Desktop CD for the vmlinuz <-- boot ?
Alternative CD
- Boots up DEFAULT /install/vmlinuz
LABEL install
menu label ^Install in text mode
kernel /install/vmlinuz
append file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed initrd=/install/initrd.gz quiet --
- Notice there's no boot=casper and no splash ( no splash screen )
- There's no casper folder but the casper content has been moved over the the /install directory.
My hypothesis is that the vmlinuz or something in the /install folder of the alternative is different then what's in the /casper folder of the Desktop CD.
I have been trying to burn a BOOTABLE .iso file with the same symlinks etc as the Alternative but I cannot get it to boot using brasero ( burn data cd ) .. I looked for a Make CD Bootable option but that doesn't work neither.
Also brasero filters out the symlinks and hidden files .. I disabled the Brasero to filter out the hidden files and symlinks but for some reason it still thinks that the /ubuntu symlink is a broken symlink and is filters it out anyways.
Any help?