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Notes

  • limine bios-install can only be used for bios and not for UEFI
  • parted mkpart primary only works for msdos (BIOS/MBR), otherwise for GPT it will be set as name/PARTLABEL and not PART-TYPE
  • limine does not support booting from ext4 directly when in BIOS/MBR mode

IMG (BIOS/MBR)

#!/bin/sh


rm -f glaucus.img


dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=glaucus.img


parted -s glaucus.img mklabel msdos
parted -s glaucus.img mkpart primary ext4 1 100%
parted -s glaucus.img set 1 boot on


modprobe loop


losetup -D


device="$(losetup -f)"
partition=${device}p1


losetup $device glaucus.img
partx -a $device


mke2fs -t ext4 $partition


rm -fr /mnt/glaucus
mkdir -p /mnt/glaucus


mount $partition /mnt/glaucus


rsync -aHAXx cross/ /mnt/glaucus


mkdir -p /mnt/glaucus/boot
cp -af /boot/vmlinuz-linux-cachyos /mnt/glaucus/boot/vmlinuz
booster build --force --compression=zstd --config=/var/lib/rad/clusters/cerata/booster/booster.yaml --universal --strip /mnt/glaucus/boot/initramfs


mkdir -p /mnt/glaucus/boot/limine


cp -af /home/firasuke/Downloads/Git/glaucus/cerata/limine/limine.cfg.img /mnt/glaucus/boot/limine/limine.cfg
cp -af /usr/share/limine/limine-bios.sys /mnt/glaucus/boot/limine


limine bios-install glaucus.img


chown -R 0:0 /mnt/glaucus
chown -R 20:20 /mnt/glaucus/var/log/wtmpd


umount -fqR /mnt/glaucus


partx -d $partition
losetup -d $device


chown firasuke:firasuke glaucus.img

IMG (EFI/GPT)

#!/bin/sh


rm -f glaucus.img


dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=glaucus.img


parted -s glaucus.img mklabel gpt
parted -s glaucus.img mkpart ESP fat32 1 65
parted -s glaucus.img set 1 esp on
parted -s glaucus.img mkpart ext4 65 1024


modprobe loop


losetup -D


device="$(losetup -f)"
partitionOne=${device}p1
partitionTwo=${device}p2


losetup $device glaucus.img
partx -a $device


mkfs.fat -F 32 $partitionOne
mke2fs -t ext4 $partitionTwo


rm -fr /mnt/glaucus
mkdir -p /mnt/glaucus


mount $partitionTwo /mnt/glaucus


rsync -aHAXx cross/ /mnt/glaucus


mount $partitionOne /mnt/glaucus/boot


booster build --force --compression=zstd --config=/var/lib/rad/clusters/cerata/booster/booster.yaml --universal --strip /mnt/glaucus/boot/initramfs


cp -f /home/firasuke/Downloads/Git/glaucus/cerata/limine/limine.cfg.img /mnt/glaucus/boot/limine.cfg


cp -f /boot/vmlinuz-linux-cachyos /mnt/glaucus/boot/vmlinuz


mkdir -p /mnt/glaucus/boot/EFI/BOOT
cp -f /usr/share/limine/BOOTX64.EFI /mnt/glaucus/boot/EFI/BOOT


chown -R 0:0 /mnt/glaucus
chown -R 20:20 /mnt/glaucus/var/log/wtmpd


umount -fqR /mnt/glaucus/boot
umount -fqR /mnt/glaucus


partx -d $partitionOne
partx -d $partitionTwo
losetup -d $device


chown firasuke:firasuke glaucus.img

ISO

#!/bin/sh


rm -fR glaucus.iso iso


mkdir -p iso/EFI/BOOT iso/limine


cp -af /home/firasuke/Downloads/Git/glaucus/initramfs iso/initramfs
cp -af /home/firasuke/Downloads/Git/glaucus/cerata/limine/limine.cfg.iso iso/limine/limine.cfg
cp -af /boot/vmlinuz-linux-cachyos iso/vmlinuz


chown -R 0:0 cross
chown -R 20:20 cross/var/log/wtmpd


mkfs.erofs iso/rootfs cross


cp -af /usr/share/limine/BOOTX64.EFI iso/EFI/BOOT


cp -af /usr/share/limine/limine-bios-cd.bin iso/limine
cp -af /usr/share/limine/limine-bios.sys iso/limine
cp -af /usr/share/limine/limine-uefi-cd.bin iso/limine


xorriso \
  -as mkisofs \
  -o glaucus.iso \
  -iso-level 3 \
  -l \
  -r \
  -J \
  -joliet-long \
  -V GLAUCUS \
  -P glaucus \
  -A glaucus \
  -p glaucus \
  -b limine/limine-bios-cd.bin \
  -boot-load-size 4 \
  -no-emul-boot \
  -boot-info-table \
  --efi-boot limine/limine-uefi-cd.bin \
  --protective-msdos-label \
  -efi-boot-part \
  --efi-boot-image \
  -vv \
  iso


limine bios-install glaucus.iso

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