add optional pv tool

use pv to give feedback on copying the airootfs to RAM when copytoram
kernel parameter is given

5 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/archiso/initcpio/hooks/archiso b/archiso/initcpio/hooks/archiso
index 1b848ce..485fb0f 100644
--- a/archiso/initcpio/hooks/archiso
+++ b/archiso/initcpio/hooks/archiso
@@ -69,10 +69,23 @@ _mnt_sfs() {
     # defined via initcpio's parse_cmdline()
     if [ "${copytoram}" = "y" ]; then
         msg -n ":: Copying squashfs image to RAM..."
-        if ! cp -- "${img}" "/run/archiso/copytoram/${img_fullname}" ; then
+
+        # in case we have pv use it to display copy progress feedback otherwise
+        # fallback to using plain cp
+        if [ -x /usr/bin/pv ]; then
+            echo ""
+            (pv "${img}" > "/run/archiso/copytoram/${img_fullname}")
+            local rc=$?
+        else
+            (cp -- "${img}" "/run/archiso/copytoram/${img_fullname}")
+            local rc=$?
+        fi
+
+        if [ $rc != 0 ]; then
             echo "ERROR: while copy '${img}' to '/run/archiso/copytoram/${img_fullname}'"
             launch_interactive_shell
         fi
+
         img="/run/archiso/copytoram/${img_fullname}"
         msg "done."
     fi
diff --git a/archiso/initcpio/install/archiso b/archiso/initcpio/install/archiso
index 74948c7..df0f6b5 100644
--- a/archiso/initcpio/install/archiso
+++ b/archiso/initcpio/install/archiso
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ build() {
     add_binary truncate
     add_binary gpg
     add_binary grep
+    add_binary pv
 
     add_file /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-cdrom_id.rules
     add_file /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/10-dm.rules
diff --git a/configs/baseline/efiboot/loader/entries/archiso-x86_64-linux-ram.conf b/configs/baseline/efiboot/loader/entries/archiso-x86_64-linux-ram.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c5e9ab9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configs/baseline/efiboot/loader/entries/archiso-x86_64-linux-ram.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+title   Arch Linux (x86_64, UEFI) Copy to RAM
+linux   /%INSTALL_DIR%/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-linux
+initrd  /%INSTALL_DIR%/boot/x86_64/initramfs-linux.img
+options archisobasedir=%INSTALL_DIR% archisolabel=%ARCHISO_LABEL% copytoram
diff --git a/configs/baseline/packages.x86_64 b/configs/baseline/packages.x86_64
index cadea18..224f7f0 100644
--- a/configs/baseline/packages.x86_64
+++ b/configs/baseline/packages.x86_64
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ linux
 mkinitcpio
 mkinitcpio-archiso
 openssh
+pv
 qemu-guest-agent
 syslinux
 virtualbox-guest-utils-nox
diff --git a/configs/baseline/syslinux/syslinux-linux.cfg b/configs/baseline/syslinux/syslinux-linux.cfg
index 867d815..ced6801 100644
--- a/configs/baseline/syslinux/syslinux-linux.cfg
+++ b/configs/baseline/syslinux/syslinux-linux.cfg
@@ -6,3 +6,9 @@ MENU LABEL Arch Linux (x86_64, BIOS)
 LINUX /%INSTALL_DIR%/boot/%ARCH%/vmlinuz-linux
 INITRD /%INSTALL_DIR%/boot/%ARCH%/initramfs-linux.img
 APPEND archisobasedir=%INSTALL_DIR% archisolabel=%ARCHISO_LABEL%
+
+LABEL arch-ram
+MENU LABEL Arch Linux (x86_64, BIOS) Copy to RAM
+LINUX /%INSTALL_DIR%/boot/%ARCH%/vmlinuz-linux
+INITRD /%INSTALL_DIR%/boot/%ARCH%/initramfs-linux.img
+APPEND archisobasedir=%INSTALL_DIR% archisolabel=%ARCHISO_LABEL% copytoram