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### [[Back to the top joborun wiki page|index.md]] ###
this document is a contribution by joborun communit member: Kerry Kappell (kerry@klouded.org)
* this document is a contribution by joborun communit member: Kerry Kappell (kerry@klouded.org) *
## Installing Limine on a new BIOS installation
### Additonal steps to a fresh installation:
> Limine works with either a DOS or an GPT partion table. GPT is recommended.
> A FAT partion is required. A modern trend is to make the FAT partion the /boot directory so make the size at least 256M or 512M.
> mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/sdXY (for example and where X = disk letter and Y = the partiton number)
> mkdir /mnt/boot
> mount /dev/sdXY /boot
> pkg (sudo pacman) -Syu linux-lts limine
> mv /boot/limine/limine.cfg /boot/limine/limine.cfg.jobopkg
> nano /boot/limine/limine.cfg and add:
>
> TIMEOUT=5
>
> :Joborun Linux-LTS
> PROTOCOL=linux
> KERNEL_PATH=boot:///vmlinuz-linux-lts
> CMDLINE=root=UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx ro net.ifnames=0 ipv6.disable=1 init=/usr/bin/runit-init
> MODULE_PATH=boot:///initramfs-linux-lts.img
Limine works with either a DOS or an GPT partion table. GPT is recommended.
A FAT partion is required. A modern trend is to make the FAT partion the /boot directory so make the size at least 256M or 512M.
`mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/sdXY (for example and where X = disk letter and Y = the partiton number)`
`mkdir /mnt/boot`
`mount /dev/sdXY /boot`
`pacman -Syu linux-lts limine`
`mv /boot/limine/limine.cfg /boot/limine/limine.cfg.jobopkg`
`nano /boot/limine/limine.cfg and add:`
`TIMEOUT=5`
`:Joborun Linux-LTS`
`PROTOCOL=linux`
`KERNEL_PATH=boot:///vmlinuz-linux-lts`
`CMDLINE=root=UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx ro net.ifnames=0 ipv6.disable=1 init=/usr/bin/runit-init`
`MODULE_PATH=boot:///initramfs-linux-lts.img`
(Your UUID can be found by ‘cat /etc/fstab’ or ‘genfstab -U /’
9. limine bios-install /dev/sdX (limine-bios.sys has already been added to /boot/limine/)
#### Installing Limine on a new UEFI installation
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Steps 1 through 8 apply to a new UEFI installation as well but steps 1-5 are very familiar to UEFI setups and don’t really need instructions here.
> pkg -S efibootmgr
> mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
> mkdir -p /boot/EFI/BOOT
> cp /usr/share/limine/BOOTX64.EFI /boot/EFI/BOOT/
> efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sdX --part Y --loader ‘EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI’ --label ‘Limine Boot Manager’ --unicode
`pkg -S efibootmgr`
`mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars`
`mkdir -p /boot/EFI/BOOT`
`cp /usr/share/limine/BOOTX64.EFI /boot/EFI/BOOT/`
`efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sdX --part Y --loader ‘EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI’ --label ‘Limine Boot Manager’ --unicode`
where X and Y need to be replaced with your disk letter and partition number. Note that backslashes are used here instead of forward slashes. Also note that ‘/boot’ or ‘\boot’ is omitted as it is cover by the disk and partition info.
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Installing limine on an existing system with GRUB can also be done but limine does not replace or reorder the efibootmgr entries but I’ll leave that for another day.
References:
** References: **
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Limine
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFISTUB