Arch Linux

Masstumor

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Registered: 2015-05-19

Posts: 14

[solved] Multiboot iso

Need a lil help here, I cant seem to get arch to boot from iso. Everything else boots just fine, I installed grub made the config file here is the section for arch:

menuentry 'Arch Linux' {
	set isofile='/boot/iso/archlinux-2015.05.01-dual.iso'
	loopback loop $isofile
	linux (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz archisolabel=ARCH_201505 img_dev=$imgdevpath img_loop=$isofile earlymodules=loop
	initrd (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
}

When I choose to boot from arch it'll error out with failed to setup loop device.  It reads the iso it'll say mounted ARCH_201505 successfully but soon as it gets to loop it'll give that error every time. Am I missing something here? Everything looks correct going by the wiki.

Edit: This is where it fails, mounting to /run/archiso/sfs/airootfs

Then it say drive failed to show

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Problem solved  found solution here

Simply changed

img_dev=$imgdevpath img_loop=$isofile earlymodules=loop

to

img_dev=/dev/disk/by-label/MULTIISO img_loop=$iso earlymodules=loop

then changed the drive lable to MULTIISO saved rebooted and it worked.

Last edited by Masstumor (2015-05-22 01:51:57)