Boot Archcraft ISO With GRUB2 Bootloader

If you already have Linux installed on your system and want to try Archcraft without making a bootable USB drive, you can do so with the GRUB2 bootloader. Follow the steps below to boot Archcraft ISO with GRUB2.

• Open terminal and edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom with your favorite text editor.

$ sudo vim /etc/grub.d/40_custom

• Add the following entry in that file, replace (hd0,X) with your root partition, e.g. (hd0,2) & "/path/to/archcraft.iso" with your Archcraft ISO path.

menuentry "Archcraft OS Amd_x86_x64" --class archcraft {
    set root='(hd0,X)'
    set isofile="/path/to/archcraft.iso"
    set dri="free"
    search --no-floppy -f --set=root $isofile
    probe -u $root --set=abc
    set pqr="/dev/disk/by-uuid/$abc"
    loopback loop $isofile
    linux  (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-linux img_dev=$pqr img_loop=$isofile driver=$dri quiet splash vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=2 rd.systemd.show_status=false rd.udev.log-priority=3 sysrq_always_enabled=1 cow_spacesize=2G
    initrd  (loop)/arch/boot/intel-ucode.img (loop)/arch/boot/amd-ucode.img (loop)/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
}						

• Save the file and update grub.cfg, the GRUB configuration file.

# On Arch Linux
$ sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
						
# On Ubuntu & its derivatives
$ sudo update-grub						

• After updating the config file, reboot the system and boot into Archcraft Live. Try it out, or maybe install it on a USB or SDcard.