Run Archlinux live from a USB stick using Grub (for install purposes)

Menu.lst wrote:title Arch Linux 2009.08
find --set-root /Images/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-i686-isolinux.iso
map /Images/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-i686-isolinux.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)
Gives off an error:
Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/archiso/ ...
ERROR: boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds...
Falling back to interactive prompt
You can try to fix the problem manually, log out when you are finised
ramfs$ _
Using Grub 0.4.4. Do I also need to point to the kernel, initrd, etc ? Thank you.
Last edited by DSpider (2009-08-23 21:55:53)

DSpider wrote:
Menu.lst wrote:title Arch Linux 2009.08
find --set-root /Images/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-i686-isolinux.iso
map /Images/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-i686-isolinux.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)
Gives off an error:
I guess this won't work. GRUB apparently creates a mapping in the BIOS here, but as soon as Linux boots, it doesn't care about what the BIOS says and accesses hardware directly. You should do the following instead:
If you have a USB stick that you can completely erase, use the .img file and copy it to the stick with dd.
If not, you can try to place the files on any filesystem (usb, hard drive, everything) like this:
* Mount the ISO
* Copy the *.sqfs files and the isomounts file to the root directory on any filesystem (I think ntfs will not work, but fat32, ext2, ext3, ext4 should)
* Copy the vmlinuz26 and the initcpio_pata.img files from the /boot directory anywhere (can be the same filesystem as above, but doesn't have to be - we'll assume this is accesible from grub by (hd1,2)/boot below)
Now add the following GRUB entry:
title Arch Live
kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinuz26 lang=en locale=en_US.UTF-8 archisolabel=YOURLABEL ramdisk_size=75%
initrd (hd1,2)/boot/initcpio_pata.img
Above, replace YOURLABEL with the label of the filesystem you copied the isomounts and *.sqfs to. If the filesystem doesn't have a label, give it one.

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