Hi,
das neue Image Archboot - Arch Linux 2023.02 ist da!
https://bit.ly/archboot
2023.02 Highlights:
- Use zram for rootfs on ISO/IMAGE boot. This enables finally booting the normal image
with 800M RAM. !500M less RAM \o/! The requirement to boot is now equal to archiso.
This also fixes the grub boot issues, with failing on using a big initramdisks
and firmware incompatibility.
- Unified Kernel Images / UKI files are provided now
- Unified Kernel Image setup is supported in EFISTUB menu now
- grub 2:2.06.r456.g65bc45963-1
- archboot-setup.sh works on installed system as System Setup tool
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Environment changes:
- switch to Terminus as default font
- show full initrd line in grub menu
- added fbset, terminus-font, bash-completion, tpm2-tss and pinentry
- removed refind, grub, pcre, zsh, grml-zsh-config, chntpw, fsarchiver
and ddrescue
- switch to bash as default shell
- added normal bash layout with /root/.bash* files
- custom bash options are provided by /etc/profile.d/custom-bash-options.sh
- new MOTD with listed architecture and Manage Archboot section
- new grub boot layout, no redundancy anymore
- remove not installed packages from local pacman database
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update-installer:
- added network check
- added bash completion
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setup:
- add Terminus font to font selection dialogs
- major code cleanup of blockdevice.sh
- major code cleanup of mountpoints.sh
- outsourced help texts to files
- added new help texts for partitioning GUID/GPT and BIOS/MBR
- new systemd compliant mounting dialogs with /efi or /boot as ESP
- don't format already existing ESP
- don't format already existing swap partition
- added sanity checks for ROOT DEVICE and ESP
- Auto-Prepare mode is systemd-gpt-auto-generator compliant now
- Auto-Prepare calculates now with M sizes
- Auto-Prepare added a minimum of 350M for /home
- skip ESP on BIOS mode
- devices are listed with their SIZE in menus
- enable custom bash options on installed system
- autodetect packages mdadm, lvm2 and cryptsetup
- install neovim and nano on selection
- added bash-completion to defaults file
- added autodetection of ucode package
- added Unified Kernel Image suppport in EFISTUB menu
- new efibootmgr routine
- disable unsafe menu entries on installed system
- don't show installation message on installed system
- added new menu title, if running on installed system
- fixed automounted ESP and /boot detection on installed systems
- don't ask for network, sources and mkfs on installed sytems
- fix LANG= add .UTF-8 to parameter
- only copy kernel and other files to ESP while doing systemd-boot and rEFInd
- only add BIOS or UEFI Windows entry to grub.cfg
- remove efi shell from grub.cfg
Grüße
tpowa