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Added copytoram=n on two new boot entries in grub.

Anton Hvornum requested to merge torxed/archiso:add-copy-to-ram-false into master

Added copytoram=n on two new boot entries. This is to avoid huge copies on machines with a lot of ram, which might cause extremely long waiting times on machines with a lot of ram.

To reproduce the issue: Get a hold of a computer with 1TB+ RAM, (emulate an ISO drive just to lower the line speed even more), boot Arch Linux ISO and watch 2Mbit/s read speed try to fill up 75% of the RAM. This would enable users to speed up the boot process by quite a bit, and the maintenance cost is negligible if this is all that's required.

Questions:

  • Do we need to do anything additionally? I know previously we've had hooks and services in the OS to deal with these things?
Edited by Anton Hvornum

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