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Fun fact: you can easily create your own USIs (Unified system image), which basically does the same (is the same concept?), with mkosi[1]. [1]: https://overhea
by NekkoDroid 2y ago
Fun fact: you can easily create your own USIs (Unified system image), which basically does the same (is the same concept?), with mkosi[1].
[1]: https://overhead.neocities.org/blog/build-usi-mkosi/ https://overhead.neocities.org/blog/build-usi-mkosi/
Another example: https://swsnr.de/archlinux-rescue-image-with-mkosi/ https://swsnr.de/archlinux-rescue-image-with-mkosi/
- lproven 2y agoAIUI -- correct me if I am wrong -- this is intended for building UKI images to boot a conventional distro from a root partition, so it's not the planned usage to construct a standalone distro from it?
- NekkoDroid 2y agoGenerally building UKIs is the intended output, but the only thing that tells systemd to pivot into an actual root is if it boots into the `initrd.target` unit, which by default it does when `/etc/initrd-release` exists. Other than that USIs and UKIs aren't very different. To answer the question if its planned: yes. It is officially supported to build USIs, just its not an explicit output format since its just a slightly different UKI (from a systemd perspective).