hypersolid syslinux efi bootloader for baremetal systems

boot hypersolid via syslinux efi

Use syslinux/syslinux as bootloader to load hypersolid.

Features

• efi mode
• pre-build partition kayout
• dual system partitions (primary and backup)
• variable system partition size

How to deploy

Write the image directly to the device via dd

# extract image and write to disk
gzip -d -c boot.img.gz | dd bs=4M status=progress of=/dev/sdX

# create new uuid's and rewrite secondary GPT table to the end of the disk
sgdisk -G /dev/sdX && sync

hypersolid partition layout

The following GPT based partition layout is recommended but not required (of course, syslinux can handle ext2 on gpt including legacy/mbr mode).

• Partition 1 "efiboot" - 200+XMB | FAT32 | syslinux efi loader ons esp partition including kernel+initramfs(1)
• Partition 2 "conf" - 512MB | EXT4 | hypersolid persistent storage
• Partition 3 "system0" - YGB | EXT4 | hypersolid system0 partition including system.img
• Partition 4 "system1" - YGB | EXT4 | hypersolid system1 partition including system.img

Optional partitions

• Partition 5 "swap" - 4GB | EXT4 | swap (optional)
• Partition 6 "data" - XGB | EXT4 | persistent storage (optional)

Build the image

This bootloader-generator creates a raw GPT disk image with 4 paritions (boot, config) including all required bootloader files + configs. The build environment is isolated within a docker container but requires full system access (privileged mode) due to the use of loop devices.

Just run build.sh to build the docker image and trigger the image build script. The disk image will be copied into the dist/ directory.

basic build

# ./build.sh [SYS_PART_SIZE] [layout]

# e.g. 2x 5GB system partitions
./build.sh 5000

with ui + rescue

# ./build.sh [SYS_PART_SIZE] [layout]

# e.g. 2x 3GB system partitions + syslinux spalsh screen + addiitonal 500M partition1 space for rescue images 
./build.sh 3000 ui

Custom Splash

# size 1024x768
convert -depth 16 -colors 256 syslinux.png splash.png

License

hypersolid is OpenSource and licensed under the Terms of GNU General Public Licence v2. You're welcome to contribute!