Hi Baurzhan,

The arch-releng list was created for archiso/aif/installation related things. I've forwarded this mail there, but it is public, so you are free to join it.

Cheers, and sorry for the late response

- Aaron

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Baurzhan Muftakhidinov baurthefirst@gmail.com Date: Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:50 PM Subject: Fwd: Archiso and fromiso boot option To: aaron@archlinux.org

Hi, Aaron! I wrote a simple patch for Archiso to support fromiso boot option, but I can't post it in arch-dev-public list, since it requires right permissions.

Maybe, you can forward this mail to that maillist.

I don't need write access to that list, I just want to introduce such a useful possibility of Archiso.

---------- Пересылаемое сообщение ---------- From: Baurzhan Muftakhidinov baurthefirst@gmail.com To: arch-dev-public@archlinux.org Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:45:47 +0600 Subject: Archiso and fromiso boot option Hi, all

I researched about fromiso boot option for archiso boot scripts and wrote a simple patch. I've attached it. It is too simple, but works fine for me, with my VFAT formatted USB drive.

fromiso allows you to boot your custom Archiso based LiveCD from ISO image file, with grub2 'isoloop' support.

Here is part of my grub.cfg file

menuentry "Archik fromiso" { loopback loop /archik-1.07-i686.iso linux (loop)/boot/vmlinuz26  fromiso=/dev/sdb1/archik-1.07-i686.iso initrd (loop)/boot/myarch.img }

Here is an discussion topic https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=850989#p850989