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#1 2015-10-01 14:35:06

Butcher
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[Solved] Booting from a filesystem image

Hello, I decided to try something. I thought it was a brilliant idea, it turns out it's what Wubi has always done... well.

Thing is, I have an NTFS filesystem and inside of it a file; that file is just an ext4 filesystem with Arch Linux installed. The computer is a UEFI-enabled computer with rEFInd installed.

So the question, I have the kernel and the initrd filesystem installed already inside the EFI partition, but I don't know what parameters should I pass to the kernel to be able to boot this, or whether it's possible at all (taking into account I'd probably need a loop device to mount that filesystem... does that even exist inside the initrd?)

Any idea, no matter how crazy, would be appreciated.

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#2 2015-10-01 14:55:16

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Re: [Solved] Booting from a filesystem image

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#3 2015-10-01 14:59:03

Butcher
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Re: [Solved] Booting from a filesystem image

That's very good and useful, now I feel stupid, thanks.

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