[syslinux] Live linux booting

[Gene Cumm]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:32, Karl Schmidt <karl at xtronics.com> wrote:
> I have a need to have a live Linux (Debian or sysrescued ) to boot off a
> hard-drive so that the hard-drive ends up umounted after boot. (for running
> partimage ).
>
> I've gone down the memdisk iso route and read about the issues there - I've
> seen a way to do this by mounting over nfs (messy) - but I want to do this
> without the network.
>
> I'm thinking that there should be a way to loop mount the needed files on a
> ram-disk.
>
> I've Googled this a lot - I'm finding pole talking about how their setup
> fails to work, but no working solutions.  Can someome point me in the right
> direction?

I like using initrd-based distros like TinyCore Linux and RIPLinuX for
rescue purposes.

-- 
-Gene