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Bootmenu with Live CD Images on Disc?

Hi,

Just want to ask you if it works:

I have a Laptop and want to make a bootmenu where i can switch between some LiveCD Images. The LiveCD images (knoppix, knoppix-std, gentoo LiveCD....) are saved in one partition at one place. Is it possible to make this bootmenu? And when yes, could someone tell me a way to reach this?

Maybee the bootmenu should look like this:
Linux (installed)
Linux FB (installed)
Rescue (installed)
Knoppix (livecd)
Knoppix-std (livecd)
....

Thanks

Lini

I'm not sure if this is possible but I believe you could try extracting the iso image into seperate directories on a partition, then booting with the kernel out of that directory... but then again I'm not sure if you can specify a directory out of a partition for the root (/) of the boot.
As in, you could extract knoppix to /somepartition/knoppix then create a lilo boot like so:

Code:

image = /somepartition/knoppix/kernel

  initrd = /somepartition/knoppix/initrd.gz

  root = /somepartition/knoppix            #part i'm not sure about

  label = knoppix

  read-only

  append="whatever you put in here on your system"

As I said, I'm not sure if you can specify a directory instead of a device (ie. /dev/hdb1) as 'root'.
Of course, you will need to specify the correct 'image' and 'initrd' (if it has an initrd).

I know this works with feather-linux off my flash stick (I copied the kernel and initrd off it) by using the following:

Code:

image = /boot/linux24

  initrd = /boot/minirt24.gz

  root = /dev/sda1

  label = Feather-Flash

  read-only

  append="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix"

/dev/sda1 = first partition on my flash stick.

Good luck, let me know what else you figure out.