Grub And Gfxboot/Gfxmenu

http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/User:Ml#grub_gfx_boot

I wanted the cd to boot using grub instead of isolinux (can be used for repairs/diagnostics). morphix and kanotix are both using a cute graphic grub menu, which gives easy access to various knoppix cheatcodes, documentation etc. This one's based on morphix, with slight ui changes. http://matthieu.lucotte.free.fr/myknoppix/gfxboot/grub_gfx.png

To try the bootloader in qemu, download gfxboot.iso.bz2, extract it and run

qemu -cdrom gfxboot.iso

grub files need to be setup under boot/grub on the knoppix cd.

note: remember to make final iso image with :

mkisofs -pad -l -f -r -J -V "MYKNOPPIX" -b boot/grub/iso9660_stage1_5 -c boot/grub/boot.cat -o
../myknoppix.iso -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 1 -boot-info-table  knoppix_iso_directory

boot/grub/message is a cpio archive which controls the ui. to recreate it you need the tools from gfxboot_2.4.orig.tar.gz. http://www.morphix.org/debian/source/gfxboot_2.4.orig.tar.gz

Then you can use gfxboot-grub-0.1_my.tgz to recreate message (based on morphix-iso-grubtheme_0.1-2.tar.gz) http://matthieu.lucotte.free.fr/myknoppix/cd_skel/KNOPPIX/remaster/gfxboot-grub/gfxboot-grub-0.1_my.tgz

documented on: 2008-03-25