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diff --git a/docs/gnulinux/grub_boot_installer.html b/docs/gnulinux/grub_boot_installer.html deleted file mode 100644 index ee833e2..0000000 --- a/docs/gnulinux/grub_boot_installer.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,312 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html> -<head> - <meta charset="utf-8"> - <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> - - <style type="text/css"> - @import url('../css/main.css'); - </style> - - <title>How to install GNU/Linux on a libreboot system</title> -</head> - -<body> - <div id="pagetop" class="section"> - <h1>How to install GNU/Linux on a libreboot system</h1> - <p> - This section relates to preparing, booting and installing a - GNU/Linux distribution on your libreboot system, using nothing more than a USB flash drive (and <i>dd</i>). - </p> - <ul> - <li><a href="#prepare">Prepare the USB drive (in GNU/Linux)</a></li> - <li><a href="#encryption">Installing GNU/Linux with full disk encryption</a></li> - <li><a href="#guix">GNU Guix System Distribution?</a></li> - <li><a href="#trisquel_netinstall">Trisquel net install?</a></li> - <li><a href="#parse_isolinux">Booting ISOLINUX images (automatic method)</a></li> - <li><a href="#manual_isolinux">Booting ISOLINUX images (manual method)</a></li> - <li><a href="#troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a></li> - </ul> - <p> - <a href="index.html">Back to previous index</a> - </p> - </div> - - <div class="section"> - <p> - <b>This section is only for the GRUB payload. For depthcharge (used on CrOS devices in libreboot), instructions - have yet to be written in the libreboot documentation.</b> - </p> - </div> - - <div id="prepare" class="section"> - - <h2>Prepare the USB drive (in GNU/Linux)</h2> - - <p> - Connect the USB drive. Check dmesg:<br/> - <b>$ dmesg</b><br/> - - Check lsblk to confirm which drive it is:<br/> - <b>$ lsblk</b> - </p> - - <p> - Check that it wasn't automatically mounted. If it was, unmount it. For example:<br/> - <b>$ sudo umount /dev/sdX*</b><br/> - <b># umount /dev/sdX*</b> - </p> - - <p> - dmesg told you what device it is. Overwrite the drive, writing your distro ISO to it with dd. For example:<br/> - <b>$ sudo dd if=gnulinux.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M; sync</b><br/> - <b># dd if=gnulinux.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M; sync</b> - </p> - - <p> - You should now be able to boot the installer from your USB drive. Continue reading, for - information about how to do that. - </p> - - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - </div> - - <div id="encryption" class="section"> - - <h2>Installing GNU/Linux with full disk encryption</h2> - - <ul> - <li><a href="encrypted_trisquel.html">Installing Trisquel GNU/Linux with full disk encryption (including /boot)</a></li> - <li><a href="encrypted_parabola.html">Installing Parabola GNU/Linux with full disk encryption (including /boot)</a></li> - </ul> - - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - </div> - - <div id="guix" class="section"> - - <h2>GNU Guix System Distribution?</h2> - - <p> - The Guix installers uses the GRUB bootloader, unlike most GNU/Linux installers which will likely use ISOLINUX. - </p> - <p> - To boot the Guix live USB install, select <b><i>Search for GRUB configuration (grub.cfg) outside of CBFS</i></b> from - the GRUB payload menu. After you have done that, a new menuentry will appear at the very bottom with text like - <b><i>Load Config from (usb0)</i></b>; select that, and it should boot. - </p> - <p> - Once you have installed Guix onto the main storage device, check - <a href="grub_cbfs.html#option1_dont_reflash">grub_cbfs.html#option1_dont_reflash</a> for hints on how - to boot it. - </p> - - <p> - GuixSD (Guix System Distribution) is highly recommended; it's part of GNU, and - <a href="https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html">endorsed</a> by the Free Software Foundation. - </p> - - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - </div> - - <div id="trisquel_netinstall" class="section"> - - <h2>Trisquel net install?</h2> - - <p> - Tip: don't use the official net install image. Download the full GNOME ISO (the ~1.5GiB one). - In this ISO, there is still the capability to boot the net install, while it also provides - an easy to use live system (which you can boot from USB). This ISO also works using - <i>syslinux_configfile -i</i> (the <i>Parse ISOLINUX</i> menu entries in the default - GRUB configuration that libreboot uses). - </p> - - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - </div> - - <div id="parse_isolinux" class="section"> - - <h2>Booting ISOLINUX images (automatic method)</h2> - - <p> - Boot it in GRUB using the <i>Parse ISOLINUX config (USB)</i> option. - - A new menu should appear in GRUB, showing the boot options for that distro; this is a GRUB menu, converted from the usual - ISOLINUX menu provided by that distro. - </p> - - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - </div> - - <div id="manual_isolinux" class="section"> - - <h2>Booting ISOLINUX images (manual method)</h2> - - <p> - <i>These are generic instructions. They may or may not be correct for your - distribution. You must adapt them appropriately, for whatever GNU/Linux distribution - it is that you are trying to install.</i> - </p> - - <p> - If the ISOLINUX parser or <i>Search for GRUB configuration</i> options won't work, then press C in GRUB to access the command line.<br/> - grub> <b>ls</b><br/> - - Get the device from above output, eg (usb0). Example:<br/> - grub> <b>cat (usb0)/isolinux/isolinux.cfg</b><br/> - - Either this will show the ISOLINUX menuentries for that ISO, or link to other .cfg files, for example /isolinux/foo.cfg.<br/> - - If it did that, then you do:<br/> - grub> <b>cat (usb0)/isolinux/foo.cfg</b><br/> - - And so on, until you find the correct menuentries for ISOLINUX. - <b>The file <i>/isolinux/foo.cfg</i> is a fictional example. Do not actually - use this example, unless you actually have that file, if it is appropriate.</b> - </p> - - <p> - For Trisquel (and other debian-based distros), there are typically menuentries listed in - <i>/isolinux/txt.cfg</i> or <i>/isolinux/gtk.cfg</i>. For dual-architecture ISO images - (i686 and x86_64), there may be separate files/directories for each architecture. - Just keep searching through the image, until you find the correct ISOLINUX configuration file. - </p> - - <p> - Now look at the ISOLINUX menuentry. It'll look like:<br/> - <b> - kernel /path/to/kernel<br/> - append PARAMETERS initrd=/path/to/initrd MAYBE_MORE_PARAMETERS<br/> - </b> - - GRUB works the same way, but in it's own way. Example GRUB commands:<br/> - grub> <b>set root='usb0'</b><br/> - grub> <b>linux /path/to/kernel PARAMETERS MAYBE_MORE_PARAMETERS</b><br/> - grub> <b>initrd /path/to/initrd</b><br/> - grub> <b>boot</b><br/> - Note: <i>usb0</i> may be incorrect. Check the output of the <i>ls</i> command in GRUB, - to see a list of USB devices/partitions. - - Of course this will vary from distro to distro. If you did all of that correctly, then it should now be booting your USB - drive in the way that you specified. - </p> - - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - </div> - - <div id="troubleshooting" class="section"> - - <h1>Troubleshooting</h1> - - <p> - Most of these issues occur when using libreboot with coreboot's 'text mode' instead of the coreboot framebuffer. - This mode is useful for booting payloads like memtest86+ which expect text-mode, but for GNU/Linux distributions - it can be problematic when they are trying to switch to a framebuffer because it doesn't exist. - </p> - - <p> - In most cases, you should use the vesafb ROM images. Example filename: libreboot_ukdvorak_vesafb.rom. - </p> - - <h2>parabola won't boot in text-mode</h2> - - <p> - Use one of the ROM images with vesafb in the filename (uses coreboot framebuffer instead of text-mode). - </p> - - <h2>debian-installer (trisquel net install) graphical corruption in text-mode</h2> - <p> - When using the ROM images that use coreboot's "text mode" instead of the coreboot framebuffer, - booting the Trisquel net installer results in graphical corruption because it is trying to switch to a framebuffer which doesn't - exist. Use that kernel parameter on the 'linux' line when booting it:<br/> - <b>vga=normal fb=false</b> - </p> - - <p> - Tested in Trisquel 6 (and 7). This forces debian-installer to start in text-mode, instead of trying to switch to a framebuffer. - </p> - - <p> - If selecting text-mode from a GRUB menu created using the ISOLINUX parser, you can press E on the menu entry to add this. - Or, if you are booting manually (from GRUB terminal) then just add the parameters. - </p> - - <p> - This workaround was found on the page: <a href="https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s04.html">https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s04.html</a>. - It should also work for gNewSense, Debian and any other apt-get distro that provides debian-installer (text mode) net install method. - </p> - - <p> - <a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>. - </p> - - </div> - - <div class="section"> - - <p> - Copyright © 2014, 2015 Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk><br/> - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document - under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 - or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; - with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. - A copy of the license can be found at <a href="../gfdl-1.3.txt">../gfdl-1.3.txt</a> - </p> - - <p> - Updated versions of the license (when available) can be found at - <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html">https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html</a> - </p> - - <p> - UNLESS OTHERWISE SEPARATELY UNDERTAKEN BY THE LICENSOR, TO THE - EXTENT POSSIBLE, THE LICENSOR OFFERS THE LICENSED MATERIAL AS-IS - AND AS-AVAILABLE, AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF - ANY KIND CONCERNING THE LICENSED MATERIAL, WHETHER EXPRESS, - IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHER. 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