FS#13248 - USB install image should offer non-GRUB bootloader

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Corry Haines (tabletcorry) - Friday, 13 February 2009, 04:57 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 21:53 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The USB image for installing uses GRUB, which is an issue on some machines. If the USB image is used on a machine that in incompatible with GRUB, the installation fails. The only way to get around this that I figured out was to use unetbootin to set up a syslinux install disk, using an old release of Arch (2008.03).

Ideally, there would either be another USB image that uses a different bootloader (syslinux or lilo work fine on my machine), or some other install option.

Steps to reproduce:
Install USB image onto USB drive.
Attempt to boot on system that is incompatible with GRUB (i.e. Dell Optiplex 320)
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 21:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Friday, 13 February 2009, 13:03 GMT
Arch Linux already provides 10(!) different images http://dev.archlinux.org/~aaron/archiso/ . I dont disagree with what you say. Something like this would be ideal but it doesnt seem to work, at least currently : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13213 .
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Friday, 13 February 2009, 13:06 GMT
Theres always tpowa's ISOs too which use ISOLINUX: http://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2008.12/ http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60385
Comment by Gavin Bisesi (Daenyth) - Saturday, 21 March 2009, 14:57 GMT
Don't the new isos all offer isolinux?
Comment by Corry Haines (tabletcorry) - Saturday, 21 March 2009, 20:15 GMT
Yes, they do, I should have requested closure on this bug when the 2009.02 release came out.

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