how may I find the filesystem image of the OS with initramfs
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I want to install Tails on my Hard Drive alongside Kali Linux.
So I installed Kali on the system and prepared Grub2.
I also created a partition of 3GB for my Tails installation, formatted it to FAT32, named it Tails and
dd
ed the tails archive onto it. Now I went to my grub.cfg
and put in the lines from the Tails grub.cfg
file.
Additionally I created a partition with the name "TailsData" of additional 3GB.
Now, if I go to my bootloader, I may select Kali as well as Tails.
Booting into Kali works fine, but now if I try to boot into Tails it rejects me with initramfs telling me
unable to find a medium containing the live file system
Now for the sake of helping out I inserted in grub.cfg
the UUID of the partition as a fix - as it may never ever change...
Still I do not get into the system, since I googled this issue I found lots and lots of initramfs errors like mine but none of them seems to fit my case unfortunately...
Additional Data:
This is my live64.cfg
which is loaded to extend syslinux.cfg
include menu.cfg
label live
menu label Tails 5.19.1
kernel /live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live ignore_uuid config live-media=removable nopersistence noprompt timezone=Etc/UTC splash noautologin module=Tails slab_nomerge slub_debug=FZ mce=0 vsyscall=none init_on_free=1 mds=full,nosmt page_alloc.shuffle=1 randomize_kstack_offset=on quiet
sysappend 0x40000
label livefailsafe
menu label Tails (Troubleshooting Mode)
kernel /live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live ignore_uuid config live-media=removable nopersistence noprompt timezone=Etc/UTC splash noautologin module=Tails slab_nomerge slub_debug=FZ mce=0 vsyscall=none init_on_free=1 mds=full,nosmt page_alloc.shuffle=1 randomize_kstack_offset=on noapic noapm nodma nomce nolapic nosmp
sysappend 0x40000
#label floppy
# localboot 0x00
#label disk1
# localboot 0x80
#label disk2
# localboot 0x81
#label nextboot
# localboot -1
Here I added
- but it doesn't change my outcome...
Here is my grub.cfg
set root='(hd1,4)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ***UUID-XYZ***
echo "Loading the Linux kernel..."
linux /live/vmlinuz initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live config live-media=removable nopersistence noprompt timezone=Etc/UTC splash noautologin module=Tails slab_nomerge slub_debug=FZ mce=0 vsyscall=none init_on_free=1 mds=full,nosmt page_alloc.shuffle=1 randomize_kstack_offset=on FSUUID=***UUID-XYZ*** quiet
echo "Loading the initramfs..."
initrd /live/initrd.img
echo "Booting..."
boot
If more information is needed, please ask.
Note: For now I managed to run the ISO file through Grub... But the ISO may not access the "tailsData" partition for now.
Asked by L00tz1ffer
(3 rep)
Nov 19, 2023, 01:54 AM
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