On Tuesday, 12 April 2022 11:56:53 -00 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:05:12 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've seen people say they have a rescue ISO image in their /boot > > partition. I'd like to try this; is there any particular knack to it, > > or do I just copy the ISO image into place? I'm using bootctl from > > sys-boot/systemd-boot. > > Unlike GRUB, systemd-boot doesn't have the ability to boot directly from > an ISO image (GRUB can mount the ISO) but if you are using System Rescue, > you can mount the mage and copy the relevant files to /boot. Full > instructions are on the System Rescue site, here the the boot loader > entry I use > > title System Rescue 9.01 > version 9.01 > linux /sysresccd/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz > options archisobasedir=sysresccd archisolabel=boot setkmap=uk > rootpass=password1 initrd /sysresccd/boot/x86_64/sysresccd.img > > You need to set a filesystem label on /boot and use that for the > archisolabel argument.
Just what I needed. Thanks Neil -- Regards, Peter.

