Send patches - preferably formatted by git format-patch - to patches at archlinux32 dot org.
summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorAnton Hvornum <anton.feeds+github@gmail.com>2020-07-07 23:24:55 +0000
committerAnton Hvornum <anton.feeds+github@gmail.com>2020-07-07 23:24:55 +0000
commite17fac498a778d5f6c83a40d2334a2af7a0e5397 (patch)
treecea4231290710ed478d5feebd85086bd7999d836
parent3b3456b6f9b3ddd6be5da6a8dad53243f6793c73 (diff)
Updated readme with a boot instruction that is partially correct but incomplete. This is because some EFI magic that I can't sort out in a oneliner.. but gives you an idea
-rw-r--r--README.md4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dd66b534..48b85a63 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -96,9 +96,11 @@ This can be done by installing `pacman -S arch-install-scripts util-linux` local
# losetup -a | grep "testimage.img" | awk -F ":" '{print $1}'
# pip install archinstall
# python -m archinstall guided
+ # qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -machine q35,accel=kvm -device intel-iommu -cpu host -m 4096 -boot order=d -drive file=./testimage.img,format=raw -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd -drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly,file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_VARS.fd
This will create a *5GB* `testimage.img` and create a loop device which we can use to format and install to.<br>
-`archinstall` is installed and executed in [guided mode](#docs-todo).
+`archinstall` is installed and executed in [guided mode](#docs-todo). Once the installation is complete,<br>
+~~you can use qemu/kvm to boot the test media.~~ *(You'd actually need to do some EFI magic in order to point the EFI vars to the partition 0 in the test medium so this won't work entirely out of the box, but gives you a general idea of what we're going for here)*
## End note