[EDIT] The addiso.sh code is now the "final" version. It's still in "testing mode, easy to make "live".
The latest version will always be at https://sourceforge.net/projects/grub-iso-adder/ not much use updating it everywhere.
Being slightly bored with USB sticks, SD cards and the like to install distros,
and to celebrate the release of Kubuntu 20.04,
I'm trying to make it easy to add a downloaded ISO to the grub menu so it can be booted - and installed - without any external medium.
So I made a little "shortcut" to do that.
It has two parts: A Dolphin Service Menu and a shell script.
The Service Menu calls the script and passes the name of the ISO to it.
So, first you take this code:
And save it as addiso.desktop in ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus (or wherever you keep your service menus, but on later versions of Kubuntu/neon it's probably there).
Then you take this one:
and save it in the same directory as addiso.sh. (or save them with other names and adjust things accordingly).
Make both executable.
Close Dolphin and re-open it.
Now, if you right-click on a .iso, you should have an entry that says "Add ISO to grub".
(If you don't have a handy .iso to test it on, you can make one of a small directory :·).
Clicking the entry will run the script.
As it is, it's in "testing" mode.
Instead of adding the entry to /etc/grub.d/40_custom, it adds it to a local text file.
Instead of actually running update-grub, it lists the current directory.
Instructions on how to make it "live" are at the top of the script.
Now,
It's pretty bad code.
Especially the "$'\044\151\163\157\146\151\154\145'" stunt to pass a $0 variable as text, is silly. I haven't found another solution, I just made that up, it does work, but there's probably a better way.
And I'm sure it can be "optimised" in many ways.
Still, it works.
At least on my system, it does add an entry to /etc/grub.d/40_custom for the ISO that was chosen in Dolphin.
But I'd certainly appreciate it if someone would try it too and let me know.
The latest version will always be at https://sourceforge.net/projects/grub-iso-adder/ not much use updating it everywhere.
Being slightly bored with USB sticks, SD cards and the like to install distros,
and to celebrate the release of Kubuntu 20.04,
I'm trying to make it easy to add a downloaded ISO to the grub menu so it can be booted - and installed - without any external medium.
So I made a little "shortcut" to do that.
It has two parts: A Dolphin Service Menu and a shell script.
The Service Menu calls the script and passes the name of the ISO to it.
So, first you take this code:
Code:
[Desktop Entry] Type=Service Icon=application-x-cd-image X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin MimeType=application/x-cd-image;model/x.stl-binary; Actions=addiso; X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel Encoding=UTF-8 [Desktop Action addiso] Name=Add ISO to grub Icon=application-x-cd-image Exec=konsole --hold -e ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/addiso.sh "%f"
Then you take this one:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
########### This script will add an entry to your grub boot menu for the ISO selected by the Dolphin Service Menu ##########
########### It will not work if not called from it ##########
###########
########### This is the experimental version ###########
########### To actually make it work, comment out the "echo "$grubentry" >>customentry.txt" line ##########
########### and uncomment the following one ###########
########### Do the same for the"ls -la" one ###########
isoentry="$1";isoshort="${isoentry##*/}"
echo A couple of checks:
FILE=$(which isoinfo)
if [ -f "$FILE" ]; then
echo "$FILE exist." $'\e[0;36m' "OK."$'\e[0;37m'
else
echo "isoinfo is" $'\e[0;31m' "not installed." $'\e[0;37m' "Please [sudo apt] install genisoimage and run this again.";exit
fi
echo
part=$(df -P . | sed -n '$s/[[:blank:]].*//p');p1=${part:7:1};p2=${part:8:1};p3=$(tr abcdefghij 0123456789 <<< "$p1");p4="hd"$p3,$p2
ptype=${part:5:1}
case $ptype in
n) p1=${part:9:1};p2=${part:13:1};p4="hd"$p1,$p2 ;;
s) p1=${part:7:1};p2=${part:8:1};p3=$(tr abcdefghij 0123456789 <<< "$p1");p4="hd"$p3,$p2 ;;
esac
echo The partition your ISO is on is $'\e[0;32m' $part $'\e[0;37m'
echo "grub notation": $p4
echo
echo
grbv=$(grub-install --version | awk '/(GRUB)/ {print substr($3,4,1)}')
case $grbv in
2) echo Your grub version is $'\e[0;32m' "2.0"$grbv". OK." $'\e[0;37m'
lz=$(isoinfo -l -i $isoentry |grep -i initrd | awk '{ print substr($NF, 1, length($NF)-2)}' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
grubentry="$(cat <<-EOF
#
#
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 \$0
menuentry "$isoshort" {
set isofile="$isoentry"
loopback loop ($p4)\$isofile
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=\$isofile noprompt noeject toram
initrd (loop)/casper/$lz
}
EOF
)" ;;
4) echo Your grub version is $'\e[0;33m' "2.0"$grbv". Grub 2.04 is known to have problems with loopack devices." $'\e[0;37m'
isoentry="$1"
lz=$(isoinfo -l -i $isoentry |grep -i initrd | awk '{ print substr($NF, 1, length($NF)-2)}' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
grubentry="$(cat <<-EOF
#
#
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 \$0
menuentry "$isoshort" {
set isofile="$isoentry"
rmmod tpm
loopback loop ($p4)\$isofile
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=\$isofile noprompt noeject toram
initrd (loop)/casper/$lz
}
EOF
)" ;;
###read -rsn1 -p"Press any key to continue";echo ;;
esac
echo $'\e[0;36m'Adding entry to /etc/grub.d/40_custom...
#echo "$grubentry" | sudo tee -a /etc/grub.d/40_custom ## This is the actual line
echo "$grubentry" >>~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/customentry.txt ## This is the line for testing purposes :·)
echo $'\e[0;36m'Done
echo Entry added to /etc/grub.d/40_custom
echo
#echo The added entry was:
#echo $'\e[0;37m'
#tail -10 ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/customentry.txt
#echo $'\e[0;36m'
echo
while true; do
read -p "Does that look correct? y/n: " yn
case $yn in
[Nn]* ) echo Close the window to exit.;exit;;
[Yy]* ) echo "OK. Let's update grub then."; break;;
esac
done
echo
echo
while true; do
read -p "Would you like to update grub? y/n: " yn
case $yn in
[Nn]* ) echo Close the window to exit.;exit;;
[Yy]* ) echo OK.; break ;;
esac
done
echo
echo "Updating grub..."
echo $'\e[0;37m'
#pkexec update-grub ## This is the actual line
ls -la ## This is the line for testing purposes :·)
echo $'\e[0;36m'
echo "Let's check. "
echo "These are the last 24 lines of /boot/grub/grub.cfg:"
echo $'\e[0;37m'
tail -24 /boot/grub/grub.cfg
echo $'\e[0;36m'
echo "You should find an entry for 'New bootable ISO' in your grub menu that should boot the OS"
echo
echo Close the window to exit.
Make both executable.
Close Dolphin and re-open it.
Now, if you right-click on a .iso, you should have an entry that says "Add ISO to grub".
(If you don't have a handy .iso to test it on, you can make one of a small directory :·).
Clicking the entry will run the script.
As it is, it's in "testing" mode.
Instead of adding the entry to /etc/grub.d/40_custom, it adds it to a local text file.
Instead of actually running update-grub, it lists the current directory.
Instructions on how to make it "live" are at the top of the script.
Now,
It's pretty bad code.
Especially the "$'\044\151\163\157\146\151\154\145'" stunt to pass a $0 variable as text, is silly. I haven't found another solution, I just made that up, it does work, but there's probably a better way.
And I'm sure it can be "optimised" in many ways.
Still, it works.
At least on my system, it does add an entry to /etc/grub.d/40_custom for the ISO that was chosen in Dolphin.
But I'd certainly appreciate it if someone would try it too and let me know.
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