- Those files are no official Arch Linux releases.
- Use them on your own risk.
- A bigger update to last 2009.08 files, it includes the latest changes from core repository,
the new klibc free mkinitcpio, a lot of new code in archboot setup script to support
new name scheme of linux utilities.
- Due to the many changes bugs might slipped into setup script , so please report them immediatly
if you find them.
- Lowmem images are gone, we are in 2010 I doubt there are so many lowmem machines around there.
It's been replaced by LTS kernel boot and installation support.
- Hybrid image file and torrent is provided, which include i686 and x86_64 core repository.
- Please read the according Changelog files for RAM limitations.
- Please check md5sum before using it.
- 2010.02 „2k10-R1“ / Changelog / Forum thread
- 2009.08 „Schmollie“ / Changelog / Forum thread
Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image.
- Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities.
- Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives.
'dd if=<imagefile> of=/dev/<yourdevice> bs=1M'
History of old releases can be found here.
- Release specific known issues and workarounds are posted in changelog files.
- dmraid might be broken on some boards, support is not perfect here.
The reason is there are so many different hardware components out there.
At the moment 1.0.0rc16 is included, with latest fedora patchset.
- grub cannot detect correct bios boot order:
It may happen that hd(x,x) entries are not correct, thus first reboot may not work.
Reason: grub cannot detect bios boot order.
Fix:
Either change bios boot order or change menu.lst to correct entries after successful boot.
This cannot be fixed it's a restriction in grub!
- It uses syslinux as initial bootloader.
- It provides x86_64/i686 architecture in one image.
- It uses hybrid iso format.
- It runs a modified Arch Linux system in initramfs.
- It is restricted to RAM usage, everything which is not necessary like
man pages etc. is not provided.
- LTS kernel boot images are provided
- Initial module loading and hardware detection is done by the hwdetect script.
- It doesn't mount anything during boot process.
- It uses a different setup script.
- CD/USB/OTHER and FTP/HTTP installation mode
- Changing keymap and consolefont
- Changing time and date
- Preparing harddisk, like auto-prepare, partitioning etc.
- Creation of software raid/raid partitions, lvm2 devices and
luks encrypted devices
- Supports standard linux,raid/raid_partitions,dmraid,lvm2 and encrypted devices
- Filesystem support: ext2/3/4,reiserfs,xfs,jfs,ntfs-3g,vfat
- Package selection support
- Autoaddition of usefull packages, like ntfs-3g etc.
- LTS kernel support
- Auto/Preconfiguration of fstab, mkinitcpio.conf, rc.conf,
crypttab and mdadm.conf
- Auto/Preconfiguration of KMS/framebuffers
- Configuration of basic system files
- Setting root password
- grub,lilo and syslinux bootloader support
- Please mail tpowa
- Archboot is a set of scripts to generate bootable media for CD/USB/PXE.
- It is designed for installation or rescue operation.
- It only runs in RAM, without any special filesystems like squashfs,
thus it is limited to the RAM which is installed in your system.
- pacman -S archboot
Have fun!
(archboot developer)