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Artix: simply artix
Posted: 07 Dec 2017, 19:15
by francois
To work with artix is surely good practice as we are now nemesis artix based. Any other considerations about artix could be addressed in this thread. Your questions, comments and setup under artix are quite welcome.
Grub2 syntax to boot the artix.iso file.
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menuentry "ARTIX grub_iso" --class dvd {
set root=(hd0,5)
set isofile="/isos/artix-lxqt-20171015-x86_64.iso"
set dri="free"
search --no-floppy -f --set=root $isofile
probe -u $root --set=abc
set pqr="/dev/disk/by-uuid/$abc"
loopback loop $isofile
linux (loop)/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 img_dev=$pqr img_loop=$isofile driver=$dri rw
initrd [s](loop)/boot/intel_ucode.img[/s] (loop)/boot/initramfs-x86_64.img
}
It differs from the manjaro grub2 syntax as (loop)/boot/intel_ucode.img will prevent the iso image from booting.
Artix: simply artix
Posted: 07 Dec 2017, 19:33
by francois
This is easy with porteus because of the cheatcode change= .
But how could I save changes while booting the artix iso with grub2? I do not want to do a full install of artix on a partition.
Thanks.
Artix: simply artix
Posted: 07 Dec 2017, 21:27
by Ed_P
If it doesn't have a changes= cheatcode, or something similar, or a cfg file, saving changes may not be an option with ISO booting. In fact ISO booting itself may not be possible. Does it support one of these ISO boot parms: from=all from=$iso, fromiso=$iso, findiso=$iso, iso-scan/filename=$iso?
Artix: simply artix
Posted: 10 Dec 2017, 00:49
by francois
Booting is possible with the grub2 syntax that I have proposed in the first post. It works.
Fanthom has implemented a lot of cheat codes for porteus. Brokenman might know something about it.Cheatcodes seems to be instructions given to the kernel at bootup. Maybe we should search on this side. Tome is a regular user of the boot iso mode, maybe he knowe. Donald ...
A few links related to persistence (cd or usb are the same):
Tomas M. live kit:
https://www.slax.org/blog/18623-Persistent-changes.html
I've successfully compiled posixovl statically with uClibc for all my target architectures (x86 32bit and 64bit), and implemented Persistent Changes to Live Kit (and thus to Slax). If you boot such system, you can create and modify all files and directories and your changes will be preserved even if you reboot.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129418
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence
Ahhhh! and one from me in 2010 on adding changes to salix os live cd, quite alike porteus persistence:
https://forum.salixos.org/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=1114
Artix: simply artix
Posted: 10 Dec 2017, 02:46
by francois
COW
Copy-on-write
On artix there is a COW folder:
/run/artix/cowspace/persistent_/
Artix: simply artix
Posted: 10 Dec 2017, 04:03
by francois
File structure is completely different from porteus and naming convention too:
Changes seem to be located in:
/run/artix/overlay_root/upper/
Modules end with .sfs, they are located in
/run/artix/img_dev/artix/artix/x86_64/
So saving changes could be performed:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=2386
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mksquashfs /run/artix/overlay_root/upper/ /changes.sfs -comp xz -b 524288 -Xbcj x86
Then it should be moved somewhere like:
/mnt/sdax/artix
where:
fromhd=/mnt/sdax/artix