Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo live iso from grub

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Sunday, 18 February 2018 02:10:46 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:44:05 +0200, zless wrote:
> > I've grown a bit tired by this already. Before I will try your and
> > Neil's suggestions I will test my luck with the Sysrescuecd iso.
> > It seems that more people are interested in this and are reporting
> > success.
> 
> submenu "SystemRescueCd 64 bit options" {
>         menuentry "SystemRescueCd with default options" {
>                 linux (loop)/isolinux/rescue64 isoloop=$isofile
>                 initrd (loop)/isolinux/initram.igz
>         }
> 
>         menuentry "SystemRescueCd with all files cached to memory" {
>                 linux (loop)/isolinux/rescue64 isoloop=$isofile docache
>                 initrd (loop)/isolinux/initram.igz
>         }
> }
> 
> You can also add extra boot options, like setting the keymap to avoid the
> boot process pausing to ask for your choice.
> 
> There's also a way to boot systemrescuecd from a bootloader that doesn't
> support ISO loading, like the systemd UEFI boot manager (aka gummiboot).

I just plug in the SysRescCD USB-3 stick.

Much less complication  ;)

-- 
Regards,
Peter.