Progress update on the Ventoy blob problem
Progress update on the Ventoy blob problem
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Posting this since quite a bit has changed since I last posted about this on !technology@lemmy.world.
Here's a rough breakdown of the current status:
- shared Ventoy components: build and seem to work, needs more testing
- grub / menu - builds
- EDK II apps / UEFI chainloader and more - builds
- iPXE / BIOS chainloader - builds, with fixes for newer toolchains
- ISO9660 and UDF drivers - TODO
- Ventoy CPIO / Linux ramdisk: builds; I deemed musl xzcat unneeded, so I skipped it; needs more testing
- wimboot / Windows chainloader (?) - stalled, I lack the necessary knowledge to work on it
- geom-ventoy / FreeBSD disk mapping kernel module - is being worked on, slowly; not ready for testing
- anything else is a TODO
This should be enough to boot Linux with just what's built manually, but I haven't tried that yet.
Secure Boot is just done by using a pre-built bypass package. I'll deal with that later.
Having more people testing this would be nice. :)
Cheers
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Are there any instructions on how to build this all to get the
ventoyinstaller binary that can replace upstream? Or is the project not up to this stage yet? I can go without Windows and FreeBSD support.On Linux installation is done through a series of scripts and
vtoycli. I haven't worked on that yet, but there's build scripts there that should do the trick, but since they build it for multiple architectures, you'll have to run just the stuff for your arch (probably x86_64).sth like:
cd vtoycli/fat_io_lib/release gcc -specs "/usr/local/musl/lib/musl-gcc.specs" -O2 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 fat*.c -c ar -rc libfat_io_64.a *.o cd ../.. gcc -specs "/usr/local/musl/lib/musl-gcc.specs" -Os -static -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Ifat_io_lib/include fat_io_lib/lib/libfat_io_64.a *.c -o vtoycli_64 # Optional strip --strip-all vtoycli_64Do I have to build all other parts myself before then? (I'm trying to package it for Nix so that other people can also build it more easily)
Pretty much. I do have some releases, but considering Nix's philosophy you probably should. Ventoy-CPIO should build fine, if the right toolchains and dietlibc are in PATH. Ventoy-boot relies on overlay mounts though, so it might not build within Nix.
Thanks! I will try and report the results back to you.