PiousMinion

I noticed your work a while ago while looking to make my own archlinux live cd for this purpose. However, I do not want something prefabricated and would rather build my own set of packages and configs. The problem is that I can't seem to get the "archiso" hook to read my usb key and mount the squashfs(es) from a path other than the root of the device. I would very much like to know the steps you take to create your arch-live releases. I've been pulling my hair out over this for so long it's not funny. tia

Instead of using BT4 I decided I would just roll my own livecd with some tools from my favouraite distro that contains all the programs I need, which works great and for me is much better than BT4. Problem is that it also uses squashfs. So, I decided to crack open it's initrd to see what I could hack up. Unfortunely I couldn't figure out what to change to cause it to look elswhere for the squashfs files. Taking a look at your work with the BT4 initrd (when you complete it) might be my only hope for getting my own to work. :/ I guess I'm basically posting to say that I'm back at square one, despite my efforts.

If that's all that is needed I may do it myself and post. :P thanks for the info

Hi, I've got my multipass almost where I want it with several OSes, tools, etc. I only have 2 items on the root of the drive, my "grldr" and a directory named "multipass" which holds everything multipass related. All of this works fine for everything I've added to my multipass except for Backtrack4 pre-final which absolutely refuses to boot without it's "casper" directory on ths drives root. Does anyone know a way to boot bt4-pre-final via grub legacy without "casper" residing on the root of the drive? P.S. I mention "pre-final" specifically because I have read things that suggest this is not an issue for bt4-beta.