[arch-general] Booting archlinux .iso to take a look

Jelle van der Waa jelle at vdwaa.nl
Sat Jun 23 06:15:42 EDT 2012


On 23/06/12 06:41, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:10:05AM EDT, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> [..]
> 
>> Downloading.. thanks..
> 
> Duplicated the grub entry for the Arch iso:
> 
> | menuentry "bridge-gnome-2012.5-x86_64.iso" {
> |     set isofile="/iso/bridge-gnome-2012.5-x86_64.iso"
> |     loopback loop (hd0,7)$isofile
> |     linux (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz archisolabel=ARCH_201108 img_dev=/dev/sdb7 img_loop=$isofile earlymodules=loop
> |     initrd (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
> | }
> 
> Won't boot.. gives me the usual ‘wait for 30 seconds’ and never gets to
> load the kernel.. or can't find the initrd.. Different file names
> I assume.. 
> 
> Need to check the contents of the iso.. tomorrow..
> 
> CJ
> 
Please note that bridge-gnome is not supported by Archlinux and is not
recommended as installation media.

-- 
Jelle van der Waa



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