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Bug#1010684: Boot parameter to specify directory of filesystem.squashfs (other than /boot)



Package: live-boot
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: kwestover.kw@gmail.com

Hello,

I have made a multiboot USB using SYSLINUX. For distributions that use
dracut, I can specify the rd.live.dir boot parameter to change the
directory that it looks for filesystem.squashfs in. There are similar
options for other live systems, like Arch Linux's archisobasedir.
This is useful to me because I can put each distribution's filesystem in
its own folder.

I was not able to find such a parameter for Debian, which limits me to
only one Debian-based distribution on the drive because the filesystem
squashfs must be in /boot, and there can only be one.
If a simple livedir= option could be added to specify the directory, it
would help me tremendously.

Thanks,
--
Ben Westover


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages live-boot depends on:
pn  live-boot-initramfs-tools | live-boot-backend  <none>

Versions of packages live-boot recommends:
ii  live-boot-doc  1:20220505
pn  live-tools     <none>
ii  rsync          3.2.4-1
pn  uuid-runtime   <none>

Versions of packages live-boot suggests:
ii  cryptsetup  2:2.4.3-1
pn  curlftpfs   <none>
pn  httpfs2     <none>
ii  wget        1.21.3-1+b1

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