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FS#56467 - Boot from Loop Device

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Stefan Schallenberg (nafets227) - Sunday, 26 November 2017, 17:14 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 02 December 2017, 00:04 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
I´d like to be able to boot from a loop device without manual activities.

Proposal:
- support kernel commandline loopdevice=/dev/sda1 loopfile=/path/to/my/image.img
needs enhancement of mkinitcpio
- support detechtion of loop devide in grub menu
needs enhancement of grub, supplying a patch to grub-mkconfig

If you agree this solution I might be able to submit the relevant patches.

This task depends upon

Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Saturday, 02 December 2017, 00:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Monday, 27 November 2017, 19:58 GMT
Well, you'll have to explain what you want to change and how, before we can evaluate whether it is something we're interested in...

But as a rule of thumb you will be better off sending proposed changes to mkinitcpio on the dedicated mailing list at https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-projects/ and grub changes to the upstream grub developers.
mkinitcpio changes can be submitted here, but they will get less visibility.

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