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* [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo live iso from grub
@ 2018-02-16 19:34 zless
  2018-02-16 19:37 ` Ian Bloss
  2018-02-17  8:44 ` R0b0t1
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: zless @ 2018-02-16 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Hello all,

I'm trying to have the Gentoo Live CD ISO as a recovery media in grub.

I tried all the options I could think off in a custom grub menu entry like 
this:

menuentry "Gentoo ISO" {
    set cmdline="root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc dokeymap looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot initrd=gentoo.igz BOOT_IMAGE=gentoo"
    loopback loop /path/to/iso/install-amd64-minimal-20180206T214502Z.iso
    linux  (loop)/isolinux/gentoo $cmdline isoloop=/image.squashfs initrd=gentoo.igz vga=791 BOOT_IMAGE=gentoo
    initrd (loop)/isolinux/gentoo.igz
}

It boots the live CD kernel, it even asks for the keymap but then it fails to mount the root device.

Any idea how to properly boot the iso from grub?






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2018-02-16 19:34 [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo live iso from grub zless
2018-02-16 19:37 ` Ian Bloss
2018-02-17  8:44 ` R0b0t1
2018-02-17 10:00   ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-17 22:44   ` zless
2018-02-18  2:10     ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-18 14:32       ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-18 15:13         ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-19  0:34           ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-18 15:55         ` R0b0t1
2018-02-18 16:50           ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-18 17:54             ` Daniel Frey
2018-02-18 18:09               ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-18 19:10                 ` Daniel Frey
2018-02-18 20:25                   ` Neil Bothwick
2018-05-04  1:16                     ` Daniel Frey
2018-02-19  5:10                 ` zless
2018-02-19 10:41                   ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-19  1:11             ` R0b0t1
2018-03-01 20:32               ` Frank Steinmetzger

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