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killianro

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Registered: 2019-02-24

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] cannot boot the arch iso on UEFI/GPT

I cannot boot the arch iso from /dev/sda9 or (hd0,gpt9). Disk UEFI/GPT.

Grub entry is below. It loads the arch iso, then it goes to rootfs prompt with "error: setting loopback device for file..."
Link to image file with the error: https://imgur.com/a/oW2MMEn

Grub entry:
menuentry "Arch Linux ISO x86_64" --class arch {
  set isoname="archlinux-2019.02.01-x86_64.iso"
  set isofile="(hd0,gpt9)/${isoname}"
  loopback loop $isofile
  linux (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz img_dev=/dev/sda9 img_loop=$isofile archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201902 earlymodules=loop
  initrd (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
}

Last edited by killianro (2019-02-25 09:28:36)

rcasa

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From: Geneva, Switzerland

Registered: 2019-01-30

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot the arch iso on UEFI/GPT

Try replacing

... img_loop=$isofile ...

with

... img_loop=$isoname ...

killianro

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Registered: 2019-02-24

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot the arch iso on UEFI/GPT

Thanks a lot. This solution works.

Try replacing

... img_loop=$isofile ...

with

... img_loop=$isoname ...

rcasa

Member

From: Geneva, Switzerland

Registered: 2019-01-30

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] cannot boot the arch iso on UEFI/GPT

Great, and welcome to the arch linux forums.
Please remember to mark your thread as [SOLVED] by editing your first post and prepending it to the subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.