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How to install GNU/Linux on a libreboot system

- 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 dd). -

Prepare the USB drive (in GNU/Linux)
Installing GNU/Linux with full disk encryption
GNU Guix System Distribution?
Trisquel net install?
Booting ISOLINUX images (automatic method)
Booting ISOLINUX images (manual method)
Troubleshooting

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- 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. -

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Prepare the USB drive (in GNU/Linux)

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- Connect the USB drive. Check dmesg:
- $ dmesg
- - Check lsblk to confirm which drive it is:
- $ lsblk -

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- Check that it wasn't automatically mounted. If it was, unmount it. For example:
- $ sudo umount /dev/sdX*
- # umount /dev/sdX* -

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- dmesg told you what device it is. Overwrite the drive, writing your distro ISO to it with dd. For example:
- $ sudo dd if=gnulinux.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M; sync
- # dd if=gnulinux.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M; sync -

- -

- You should now be able to boot the installer from your USB drive. Continue reading, for - information about how to do that. -

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Installing GNU/Linux with full disk encryption

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GNU Guix System Distribution?

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- The Guix installers uses the GRUB bootloader, unlike most GNU/Linux installers which will likely use ISOLINUX. -

- To boot the Guix live USB install, select Search for GRUB configuration (grub.cfg) outside of CBFS from - the GRUB payload menu. After you have done that, a new menuentry will appear at the very bottom with text like - Load Config from (usb0); select that, and it should boot. -

- Once you have installed Guix onto the main storage device, check - grub_cbfs.html#option1_dont_reflash for hints on how - to boot it. -

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- GuixSD (Guix System Distribution) is highly recommended; it's part of GNU, and - endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. -

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Trisquel net install?

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- 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 - syslinux_configfile -i (the Parse ISOLINUX menu entries in the default - GRUB configuration that libreboot uses). -

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Booting ISOLINUX images (automatic method)

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- Boot it in GRUB using the Parse ISOLINUX config (USB) 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. -

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Booting ISOLINUX images (manual method)

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- 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. -

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- If the ISOLINUX parser or Search for GRUB configuration options won't work, then press C in GRUB to access the command line.
- grub> ls
- - Get the device from above output, eg (usb0). Example:
- grub> cat (usb0)/isolinux/isolinux.cfg
- - Either this will show the ISOLINUX menuentries for that ISO, or link to other .cfg files, for example /isolinux/foo.cfg.
- - If it did that, then you do:
- grub> cat (usb0)/isolinux/foo.cfg
- - And so on, until you find the correct menuentries for ISOLINUX. - The file /isolinux/foo.cfg is a fictional example. Do not actually - use this example, unless you actually have that file, if it is appropriate. -

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- For Trisquel (and other debian-based distros), there are typically menuentries listed in - /isolinux/txt.cfg or /isolinux/gtk.cfg. 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. -

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- Now look at the ISOLINUX menuentry. It'll look like:
- - kernel /path/to/kernel
- append PARAMETERS initrd=/path/to/initrd MAYBE_MORE_PARAMETERS
- - - GRUB works the same way, but in it's own way. Example GRUB commands:
- grub> set root='usb0'
- grub> linux /path/to/kernel PARAMETERS MAYBE_MORE_PARAMETERS
- grub> initrd /path/to/initrd
- grub> boot
- Note: usb0 may be incorrect. Check the output of the ls 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. -

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Troubleshooting

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- 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. -

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- In most cases, you should use the vesafb ROM images. Example filename: libreboot_ukdvorak_vesafb.rom. -

- -

parabola won't boot in text-mode

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- Use one of the ROM images with vesafb in the filename (uses coreboot framebuffer instead of text-mode). -

- -

debian-installer (trisquel net install) graphical corruption in text-mode

- 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:
- vga=normal fb=false -

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- Tested in Trisquel 6 (and 7). This forces debian-installer to start in text-mode, instead of trying to switch to a framebuffer. -

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- 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. -

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- This workaround was found on the page: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s04.html. - It should also work for gNewSense, Debian and any other apt-get distro that provides debian-installer (text mode) net install method. -

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