BOOTING FROM HARD DRIVE

Things needed: A Lilo or GRUB boot loader installed and working. The lastest GParted LiveCD iso. A working Linux Distro. First we'll open the iso file with these comands: patrick@gparted:~$mkdir iso patrick@gparted:~$mount -o loop /path/to/iso/gparted-livecd-0.X.iso iso patrick@gparted:~$cd iso patrick@gparted:~/iso$ ls gparted isolinux I have decided to boot from my windows drive that is mounted on /mnt/windows: patrick@gparted:~/iso$ cp -a * /mnt/winows I need to update my boot loader so it can find the linux and initrd.gz files. My windows drive is /dev/hda1. For GRUB add this to menu.lst: title Gparted root (hd0,0) kernel /isolinux/linux root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=65000 initrd /isolinux/initrd.gz For lilo add this to lilo.conf: image= /mnt/windows/isolinux/linux label = GParted initrd = /mnt/windows/isolinux/initrd.g append = "init=/linuxrc" root = /dev/ram0 ramdisk=65000 Be sure to run /sbin/lilo! Now reboot the computer and select GParted from the boot menu. When the GParted LiveCD/USB Extra Boot Options comes up select "Pick boot device".

Now type the name of the device to boot from.

After hitting "OK" we will be returned to the main menu. Select "Done" and the system will boot. That's it!