[plug] Booting ISO image files

[Trevor Phillips]

Is there a way to boot an "image" direct from a file, loop-back style, 
rather than a partition or CD? I have this dream of a magic boot-loader 
which lists a pile of images (Debian Woody install, Debian Test install, 
MoviX, Knoppix), and can boot any one on select. Now imagine that on a 
bootable USB HDD? How hard would it to be to do this?

The main technical "Gotcha" I can think of is that the images would 
probably need to be unfragmented on the disk. Perhaps a special partition 
format that is dedicated to sub-partitioned of other images?

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