For the rest of this wiki, i will use QEMU, you can switch on virtualbox or what you want. I’ve alrealy create the archlinux system in an other post here.
So, i run my script for start the vm.
$ archvm
Network
Control the network, launch dhcpcd if need:
# ping -c 1 gentoo.org
# dhcpcd ens3
Dependencies
Next step is to install somes dependencies:
# pacman -S archiso git
Clone Gentoo-ZFS
My repository contain the necessary to install zfs-lts and somes script i need to autoformat a hdd with zfs.
# git clone https://github.com/szorfein/Gentoo-ZFS
Copy files
Copy the releng directory from archlinux to build our custome image.
# cp -r /usr/share/archiso/configs/releng archlive
# cd archlive
# vim pacman.conf
[archzfs]
Server = https://archzfs.com/$repo/$arch
Edit the packages.x86_64 to include the good kernel, add:
archzfs-linux
And update somes files with my repository.
# cp -a Gentoo-ZFS/archiso/* archlive
Repo ArchZFS
Before build iso, you need import the gpg key for pacman from archzfs.
# pacman-key -r DDF7DB817396A49B2A2723F7403BD972F75D9D76 --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net:80
# pacman-key --lsign-key DDF7DB817396A49B2A2723F7403BD972F75D9D76 --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net:80
# pacman -Syy
Build ISO
# cd archlive
# mkarchiso -v -o out .
Rebuild ISO
If you need rebuild iso, then, do it:
# cd archlive
# rm -v work/*
And rebuild iso normally.
Retrieve the iso from qemu image
So, close your vm if it’s run.
# systemctl poweroff
Next, check Archvm.raw with fdisk utility.
$ sudo fdisk -l Archvm.raw
Disque vms/Arch.raw : 10 GiB, 10737418240 octets, 20971520 secteurs
Unités : secteur de 1 × 512 = 512 octets
Taille de secteur (logique / physique) : 512 octets / 512 octets
taille d'E/S (minimale / optimale) : 512 octets / 512 octets
Type d'étiquette de disque : gpt
Identifiant de disque : F49B432F-0EC9-4B4A-86E1-B3E1D6B8646D
Périphérique Début Fin Secteurs Taille Type
vms/Arch2.raw1 2048 6143 4096 2M Amorçage BIOS
vms/Arch2.raw2 6144 530431 524288 256M Système de fichiers Linux
vms/Arch2.raw3 530432 20971486 20441055 9,8G Système de fichiers Linux
You only need sector size, 512 here, and the beginning of partition 3: 530432.
$ bc
530432*512 = 271581184
You have to mount this partition for retrieve the iso image:
$ sudo mount -o loop,offset=271581184 Archvm.raw /mnt
$ cp -a /mnt/root/archlive/out/build/archiso.iso ~
$ sudo umount /mnt
Troubleshooting
spl-linux-lts requires linux-lts=X.XX.XX
With this error, you have nothing to do, just wait some days, it’s happen when linux-lts is update from archlinux, the team of archzfs have to update somes file like src/kernels/linux-lts.sh.
Once the repository is update, remove older build packages and rebuild iso:
# cd archlive
# rm -rf out/*
# ./build.sh -v
Post an issue to github.