rEFInd General Discussion: Booting a .iso File? (original) (raw)

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Booting a .iso File?

Created: 2018-07-11

Updated: 2022-05-29

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  Hi all,
  Is rEFInd capable of booting a .iso file, as opposed to a .iso that has been dd'd onto a partition? If this is possible, how would I go about doing this?
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  Not by itself. To do that, you'd need an EFI loopback driver -- a driver that makes a .iso file look like a disk device. Such drivers exist for most OSes, but AFAIK none (yet) exists for EFI.
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  Any update on this subject? I'm also interested booting linux live images directly from rEFInd.
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  I haven't heard anything new on the subject, I'm afraid.
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  Is it possible to do it how grub2 does it?
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