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

On 02/18/18 12:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:10:38 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> I started moving away from Grub2 mostly because on my EFI computers it >> was booting in blind mode so you couldn't see what was going on while >> booting. > > I moved away from it on my EFI

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

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 07:11:23PM -0600, R0b0t1 wrote: > >> Please be careful, sir! The SysRescCD releases are not signed. The > >> Russians might be able to get you! > > > > That's not really an issue as neither Peter nor I is able to vote in US > > elections ;-) > > > > Not to take the joke

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

On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 07:10:03 +0200, zless wrote: > On top of that my nvme disk is not seen in the busybox recovery shell > in order to try to manually mount the encrypted container. > I think the nvme things are modules inside the initrd and > that doesn't get loaded. If you're in busybox the

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

În ziua de duminică, 18 februarie 2018, la 20:09:33 EET, Neil Bothwick a scris: > I mount the sysrescd ISO and copy these files to /boot/sysrescd > > initram.igz > rescue64 > sysrcd.dat > sysrcd.md5 > version > > The entry for systemd-boot is > > title System Rescue Cd 5.2.0 > version

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

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:55:01 -0600, R0b0t1 wrote: > >> >> 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). >> >

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

On Sunday, 18 February 2018 15:13:52 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:32:54 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > 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

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

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:10:38 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > I started moving away from Grub2 mostly because on my EFI computers it > was booting in blind mode so you couldn't see what was going on while > booting. I moved away from it on my EFI computers simply because I could! > The thing I hate

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

On 02/18/18 10:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:54:07 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> I'd also tried getting the Gentoo LiveCD to boot via grub (although this >> was almost two years ago) and never got it to boot. I don't remember if >> I tried to get SysRescueCD to work either...

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

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:54:07 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > I'd also tried getting the Gentoo LiveCD to boot via grub (although this > was almost two years ago) and never got it to boot. I don't remember if > I tried to get SysRescueCD to work either... on my newer EFI machines > I've been ditching

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

On 02/18/18 08:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:55:01 -0600, R0b0t1 wrote: > 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

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

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:55:01 -0600, R0b0t1 wrote: > >> 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 ;)

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

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 8:32 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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

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

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:32:54 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > 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

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

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

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

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

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

În ziua de sâmbătă, 17 februarie 2018, la 10:44:03 EET, R0b0t1 a scris: > The difference being a change in parameter name. isoloop is now > isoboot. If that fails look at > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7719674.html#7719674, but it > seems to contain the same changes. Thank you for your

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

On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 02:44:03 -0600, R0b0t1 wrote: > Having read all of that again this does seem like the fix. If that > *still* doesn't work, recursively grep the unpacked ISO file for > either isoloop or isoboot to find the location in the script you > should be looking at. That isn't enough

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

I take it you have read https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-790015-highlight-grub2+iso.html. This did not work for me either, and it would leave me in the same place: the root filesystem would not be uncompressed and pivoted to. I can't remember exactly what the change was, but I think I

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

Probably need to pass a uuid to the real root kernel param On Fri, Feb 16, 2018, 11:34 AM zless wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to have the Gentoo Live CD ISO as a recovery media in grub. > > I tried all the options I could think off in a custom grub menu entry like > this:

[gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo live iso from grub

Hello all, I'm trying to have the Gentoo Live CD ISO as a recovery media in grub. I tried all the options I could think off in a custom grub menu entry like this: menuentry "Gentoo ISO" { set cmdline="root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc dokeymap looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot