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Please add loopback.cfg #243
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Ran into this again today. Please add |
No loopback on 20.04 either. 😞 |
Pop_OS! ISO Casper doesn't containing parsing for
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Thanks for checking @space88man. Then it should be brought over from Ubuntu. It's in the package https://packages.ubuntu.com/eoan/lupin-casper. |
TL;DR you need a slightly modified initrd.gz to run in ISO-on-HDD mode by adding casper's iso-scan scripts. Tested - I extracted Instead of using GRUB's loopback, I pulled
works and Pop_OS! is able to run in ISO-on-HDD mode. I add the Off-topic: How did Pop_OS! 20.04 run on my Renoir APU when KDE Neon (latest 5.4.0) wouldn't and required |
That works indeed. After adding |
So, can a |
I highly doubt Pop!_OS will have a working |
This seems like something any one of you could help fix with a PR. Add |
@space88man @jrudolph can you share the full list of commands you used to extract & re-compress the gz because i'm missing some of the files when decompressing and on re-compressing; they aren't identical on comparing (i'm doing it for pop os 19.04) |
Following commands assume the content of initrd.gz is (will be) in the current directory (taken from Slackware + kernel.org):
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@Oifan Extraction follows a different sequence of cpio and gzip commands, but this can be avoided and directly problem is some of the files do not get extracted (i've tried on different filesystems - NTFS & ext3 but they don't extract) - these files are from not sure if others have faced this issue or not |
For reference Pop_OS! 21.04 build 10; build initrd with iso-scan capability:
In the following comands we assume 9066 blocks for prepended microcode.
The
Files after copying stuff from the Ubuntu 21.10 initrd:
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Issue/Bug Description:
Please add a
loopback.cfg
like Ubuntu ISOs do. This will allow one to boot the ISO from hard disk in an easy way.Other Notes:
https://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Loopback.cfg
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