Boot LiveDVD.iso by Grub4dos iso emulation

[hodgestructure]

Following the tutorial by hecabe,

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=151861

 

I have made a working Snow Leopard 10.6.4 LiveDVD.

 

But I want to do something more.

 

Grub4dos has a feature called "ISO emulation", by which one can boot from iso directly.

 

When I boot my computer, I got grub4dos menu, then I typed the following commands:

 

title Snow Leopard LivDVD ISO

map --mem (hd0,0)/ISO/Mac-Live.iso (hd32)

map --hook

map (hd32) (hd0) #with this line or without

chainloader (hd32)

boot

 

it continues to boot from Mac-Live.iso, but finally it stops with a message

 

"still waiting for root device" , and repeat this message again and again.

 

My question : Is any way to boot directly from Snow Leopard LiveDVD iso?

 

(I think we may modify some files...)

 

The reason for which I want to boot from iso are:

 

1. I don't have a built-in DVD rom. I tested the LiveDVD by an external DVD rom.

 

2. Booting from iso is much faster that booting from DVD rom.

 

 

3. I can use LiveUSB, but I prefer to use LiveDVD iso, because I like grub4dos.

With ISO emulation, I don't have create many partitions. (I have many bootable ISO,

for example, BartPE, Win7PE, Ubuntu...etc)

[dgeordgy21]

Can you poste a picture of your verbose screen?

[dgeordgy21]

Have you find a solution?

[hodgestructure]

Have you find a solution?

 

No. I will post a screenshot later. But I don't think the screenshot helps anything.

[spartango]

Still waiting for root device arises from the system's inability to find a mountable block device--most of the time this happens because there isnt a kext loaded to take care of the hardware where the disk is connected (ie, no diskcontroller kext). Its possible(worrisome) that grub4dos is doing some sata controller emulation and u simply dont have the right kext to handle the emulated device.