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What is archboot?
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- Archboot is a set of scripts to generate bootable media for CD/USB/PXE.
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- It is designed for installation or rescue operation.
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- It only runs in RAM, without any special filesystems like squashfs,
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thus it is limited to the RAM which is installed in your system.
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Please read the according Changelog files for RAM limitations.
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- Git repository:
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https://gitlab.archlinux.org/tpowa/archboot
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- It is developed by tpowa.
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The difference to the archiso install media:
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- It provides an additional interactive setup and quickinst script.
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- It contains [core] repository on media.
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- It runs a modified Arch Linux system in initramfs.
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- It is restricted to RAM usage, everything which is not necessary like
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man or info pages etc. is not provided.
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- It doesn't mount anything during boot process.
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- It supports remote installation through ssh.
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Latest Releases:
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- Hybrid image file and torrent is provided,
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which include i686 and x86_64 core repository.
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- Hybrid network image file and torrent is provided,
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which do not include i686 and x86_64 core repository.
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- Please read the according Changelog files for RAM limitations.
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- Please check md5sum before using it.
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https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/latest
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Burning Release:
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Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image.
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- Can be burned to CD(RW)/DVD media using most CD-burning utilities.
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- Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities.
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This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives.
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'dd if=<imagefile> of=/dev/<yourdevice> bs=1M'
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Supported boot modes of Archboot media:
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- It supports BIOS booting with syslinux.
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- It supports UEFI/UEFI_CD booting with gummiboot and EFISTUB.
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- It support UEFI_MIX_MODE booting with grub.
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- It supports Secure Boot with prebootloader.
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- It supports grub(2)'s iso loopback support.
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variables used (below for example):
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iso_loop_dev=PARTUUID=XXXX
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iso_loop_path=/blah/archboot.iso
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- It supports booting using syslinux's memdisk (only in BIOS mode).
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Interactive setup features:
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- Media and Network installation mode
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- Changing keymap and consolefont
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- Changing time and date
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- Setup network with netctl
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- Preparing storage disk, like auto-prepare, partitioning,
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GUID (gpt) support, 4k sector drive support etc.
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- Creation of software raid/raid partitions, lvm2 devices
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and luks encrypted devices
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- Supports standard linux,raid/raid_partitions,dmraid/fakeraid,lvm2
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and encrypted devices
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- Filesystem support: ext2/3/4, btrfs, f2fs, nilfs2, reiserfs,xfs,jfs,
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ntfs-3g,vfat
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- Name scheme support: PARTUUID, PARTLABEL, FSUUID, FSLABEL and KERNEL
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- Mount support of grub(2) loopback and memdisk installation media
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- Package selection support
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- Signed package installation
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- hwdetect script is used for preconfiguration
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- Auto/Preconfiguration of fstab, kms mode, ssd,
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mkinitcpio.conf, systemd, crypttab and mdadm.conf
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- Configuration of basic system files
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- Setting root password
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- grub(2) (BIOS and UEFI), refind-efi, gummiboot,
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syslinux (BIOS and UEFI) bootloader support
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FAQ, Known Issues and limitations:
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- Release specific known issues and workarounds are posted in changelog files.
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- Check also the forum threads for posted fixes and workarounds.
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- Why screen stays blank or other weird screen issues happen?
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Some hardware doesn't like the KMS activation,
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use nouveau.modeset=0 or radeon.modeset=0 or i915.modeset=0
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or nomodeset on boot prompt.
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- dmraid/fakeraid might be broken on some boards, support is not perfect here.
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The reason is there are so many different hardware components out there.
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At the moment 1.0.0rc16 is included, with latest fedora patchset,
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development has been stopped. mdadm supports some isw and ddf fakeraid
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chipsets, but assembling during boot is deactivated in /etc/mdadm.conf!
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- Why is parted used in setup routine, instead of cfdisk in
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msdos partitiontable mode?
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- parted is the only linux partition program that can handle all type of
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things the setup routine offers.
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- cfdisk cannot handle GPT/GUID nor it can allign partitions correct
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with 1MB spaces for 4k sector disks.
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- cfdisk is a nice tool but is too limited to be the standard
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partitioner anymore.
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- cfdisk is still included but has to be run in an other terminal.
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Bugs:
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- If you find a bug, please mail the archboot developer directly.
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- Arch Linux Bugtracker:
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https://bugs.archlinux.org
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Have fun!
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tpowa
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<tpowa <funnysign> archlinux.org>
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(archboot developer)
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