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From: zless <zless@dmesg.site>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo live iso from grub
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 21:34:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2354992.1U7z9vWMk8@matrics> (raw)

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?






             reply	other threads:[~2018-02-16 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-16 19:34 zless [this message]
2018-02-16 19:37 ` [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo live iso from grub 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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