On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 01:11:38AM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > The G4L kernels require no kernel modules. That is one > the file system will work with any of the kernels with no > changes at all. Just build new kernel, and copy it to the > boot directly ad change the lines in the syslinux.cfg to > match the latest kernel. Don't have to make any changes. So, that makes sense, and if this is a heavily customized, boot-from-ram system, then it would work fine with all the drivers compiled into the kernel and not as modules, although it would make the kernel rather large. > After doing a dnf update on the build machine, have a > simple script that automatically copies any new program > files and libraries that were updated. Wait, I'm confused, now you are talking about dnf, I thought this was an all-in-one initrd system, what is using dnf? > The kernels have the EFI option in the .config file, so the > kernels should be able to be loaded via the EFI process > somehow, but so far I haven't gotten it to work. Maybe I'll > eventual figure it out, or maybe not. Like I've said, > Clonzilla went with booting a distribution that supported > UEFI, and then added there stuff to that. Could do the > same, but it requires a lot more steps then simple booting > from a CD or USB... Where are you putting these kernels on the EFI volume? For example, if you have the msdos-formatted volume mounted as /boot/efi, the EFI firmware looks for this: /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI ... by default. You can make that be your kernel, a GRUB2 EFI executable or the shimx64.efi, which is what Fedora systems uses. The shimx64.efi executable is a signed UEFI executable that launches GRUB2. But if you want to disable Secure Boot, you could just put it in EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI and it should detect it by default. > Seen some post on Windows 11 hardware requirements, > and it might soon make only secure boot a requirement > for anyone. The UEFI spec says that on x86_64 systems you should be able to disable secure boot. Dell most likely has that option, because they have a lot of customers who need it. (for example, if you use nvidia and CUDA, you'll need to disable secure boot or manually install your own signing keys) > Just seems there should be a way to get it to > work, but I'm retired and gives me something to play > with. I don't have any machines that require UEFI boot. > Perhaps I should setup a system with UEFI, and see if the > 40_custome option works. I do know that a UEFI boot > system will fail to install memtest. libvirtd lets you set up UEFI VMs, even on systems that don't have UEFI boot, which is something I have. In virt-manager, just click to configure the VM before starting the install, and go over into Overview, you can change the Firmware from BIOS to UEFI. I believe there's a secboot firmware option, even, although I've not tested it. Then you can test to your heart's content. -- Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
