booting GhostBSD iso image from grub2

[s_monad]

good day

is the a way to load latest ghostbsd iso image using grub2 ?

there is a way to boot FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso using grub2.
so, there should be a way to boot latest ghostbsd (built upon the same version of freebsd, i believe)

PS. i've tried hxxps://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-grub2-settings project - no luck (it's a bit outdated)

[wb7odyfred]

When I got dumped into "Grub>" on a working system, here is what I did to get booted back up. Does not answer your question about booting a .iso image.
grub2>

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 ls

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set root='(da0,gpt2)'
chainloader (da0,gpt2)/efi/boot/REFINDX64-REFIND.EFI
boot

GhostBSD Grub2 settings Github code
https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-grub2-settings

[s_monad]

two years have passed since i'd raised the question

is there any motion in that direction? (I'm well aware of ventoy loader, but grub2 is much preferable in this case)

[ericbsd]

First, the ghostbsd-grub2-settings were for the old ISO that was using Grub and it has been discontinued for over 5 years now.

wb7odyfred did answer, but you didn't reply back to him. So I think everyone thought that it answered your question.

Also so it is not clear what you want to achieve with it. So what are you trying to do?

[s_monad]

in order to give some liveCD a try, one should burn iso image to optical disk or usb flash stick

but there is a third way - when one doesn't need/have dvd drive or spare usb stick - boot iso file directly from hard drive (it is much faster then booting from dvd/usb staff)

it works for ubuntu images, hxxps://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/ISOBoot contains some examples.
So, the might be some way to boot bsd live images using grub2, I believe