Re: Boot Archiso files using systemd-boot or GRUB

[nl6720 <nl6720@xxxxxxxxx>]

On otrdiena, 2023. gada 16. maijs 10:13:51 EEST Óscar García Amor wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> I am doing a little crazy, I would like to boot the content of Archiso
> but with the extracted files not the ISO image itself.
> 
> It is clear to me that to boot I need:
> - amd-ucode.img
> - intel-ucode.img
> - initramfs-linux.img
> - vmlinuz-linux
> - airootfs.sfs
> 
> And that the linux and initrd lines are:
> linux /archiso/vmlinuz-linux
> initrd /archiso/intel-ucode.img /archiso/amd-ucode.img
> /archiso/initramfs-linux.img
> 
> But I'm missing the options to pass to the kernel to find the
> airootfs.sfs. I know that using the img_dev and img_loop parameters I
> can tell it where the ISO file is located and boot with it, but I'm
> more interested in booting directly with the extracted airootfs.sfs and
> without the ISO. Any ideas?
> 
> Greetings.

The airootfs image location is hardcoded to "/${archisobasedir}/${arch}/", so 
you you need to place airootfs.sfs in a "x86_64" subdirectory.
Then setting archisobasedir and archisodevice should be enough.

nl6720

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