Archboot - Arch Linux ARM ISO 2024.09 released for aarch64

[tpowa]

Hi community,
today 10.01.2022 I released full archboot ISO support for aarch64.
Homepage changed to reflect all aarch64 support:
[url]https://archboot.com[/url]

These images enable you to install archlinuxarm on an aarch64 system.
Apple Mac M1 and above hardware with parallels desktop software [url]https://parallels.com[/url] is working.[url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Parallels_Desktop[/url]

Archboot Reddit page:
[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/archboot[/url]

Have fun,
greetings
tpowa

[tpowa]

New 2022.03 images uploaded.
- The images are now reproducable
- archboot repository to achieve this goal was set up on pkgbuild.com
- Wiki page updated accordingly to reflect how to rebuild an 1:1 release
- new Grub background image added
- new Grub UEFI Tools menu
- Grub displays what menu point is executed
- Serial console is now enabled and active by default
- Removed most of terminfo files from environment
- Changed default locale of environment to C

[tpowa]

New 2022.04 images uploaded:
- New offline ISO is provided (local image)
Setup:
- setup, km and tz menu improvements
- implemented autodetection of firmware package
(only install a linux-firmware{-marvell} package if a loaded module requires it)
- new pacman package installation routine (only show log on error)
- new mkinitcpio routine (only show log on error)

Environment:
- marvell firmware was added
- fixed C.UTF-8 locale bug
- added tmux to environment
- readded all terminfo files
- internal shellcheck code cleanup
- possibility to install archinstall on offline medium
- release adds a new MOTD which mentions how to get support on internet or get WIFI authenticated through startup page and IRC
- readded weechat for IRC support.
- elinks is now preconfigured to open https://wiki.archlinux.org by default
- elinks has now preconfigured Arch Linux bookmarks
- weechat is preconfigured to join libera network by default for getting instant Arch Linux support.
- new colored messages for update script implemented
- ZRAM usage to lower RAM requirements in most places

[tpowa]

New 2022.05 images uploaded:
- New Xfce option implemented
- added rmmod tpm by default to avoid OOM firmware issues.

Introducing XFCE environment:
- To launch XFCE: update-installer.sh -launch-xfce
- added archboot panel and menu
- added Gparted
- added GVFS with plugins
- added thunar with plugins
- added chromium
- automatic VNC desktop sharing enabled

Setup changes:
- better workflow through infoboxes instead of msgboxes
- reworked manage storage, mountoints, btrfs and proxy setting menus
- fixed raid selection in btrfs menu
- fixed partitions already in use
- added VC hint on package installation
- added message if /install is unmounted by setup script

Environment:
- added sbctl package
- renamed backup scripts (removed archboot- prefix)
- colored backup and quickinst scripts
- updated help messages of helper scripts
. fixed Secure Boot image booting by adding kernel to EFI/BOOT/
- fixed secure boot keys generation
- fixed users and groups

[tpowa]

New 2022.06 images uploaded:
- New Archboot Homepage: https://bit.ly/archboot
- New [archboot_repo] repository, archboot dropped from [extra] repository
- New background image
- Kernel 5.18.x series

Desktop highlights:
- New KDE/Plasma installation environment option
- New KDE/Plasma Wayland installation environment option
- New Gnome installation environment option
- New Gnome Wayland installation environment option
- New custom Xorg installation environment option
- New custom Wayland installation environment option

update-installer.sh improvements:
- update-installer.sh shows available options dynamically now
- kexec switch added for different available memory zones
- always update VNC password when running update-installer.sh

Setup changes:
- autodetect WIFI adapter
- added WIFI ESSID selector menu
- remove fallback initramfs usage
- allow installing grub on not booted archboot system

Environment changes:
- synced groups and users

[tpowa]

New 2022.07 images uploaded:
- added all graphical environments to local image
- autodetection of RAM with according actions on login
- show kexec memory gap on aarch64: 3950 MB - 4299 MB
- fixed kexec memory gap on x86_64
- only download graphical packages on -latest-install
- added kexec arithmetic for choosing KEXEC_FILE_LOAD
- all images have now network(LAN),dhcpcd and ssh support already on bootup
- speedup and reuse of gpg pacman initialization
- log messages from update-installer.sh to ssh (/dev/pts/0)
- always show Local mode on login
- rename -kde options to -plasma
- rename _KDE_PACKAGES to _PLASMA_PACKAGES
- rename archboot_repo to archboot
- rename update-installer.sh to update-installer
- shorten xorg environment options: -gnome, -plasma and -xfce
- only allow one graphical environment on local image < 4.5 GB RAM
- updated welcome messages
- updated bootloader menu entries
- updated background image
- added archboot MOK key
- update fedora shim to 15.6-1
- update grub to 2.06.r261.g2f4430cc0-1

Setup changes:
- allow archboot environment update with 2600 MB RAM
- new f2fs defaults added based on Arch Linux wiki
- efi default size on autoprepare mode set to 512 MB
- changed filesystem order
- fix autoprepare on mmc blockdevices
- fix device listing to not showing install media
- better wifi dialogs and menus
- speedup network link detection

Environment changes:
- adopted glibc changes with C.UTF-8 locale

[tpowa]

New 2022.08 images uploaded:

Environment changes:
- new background image
- kernel 5.19.x
- shim 15.6-2
- added kmod fix from mkinitcpio

[tpowa]

New 2022.09 images uploaded:
- Big end of summer cleanup this time:
cleanup dependencies: 47 less packages installed (316 packages -> 269 packages)
removed packages: linux-atm, ppp, pppoe, xl2tpd, wvdial, vpnc, openconnect, openvpn, pptpclient, libgssglue, snarf, cracklib, ipw2100-fw, ipw200-fw, gnu-netcat, cpio and fuse(3)
saved booted space: 16MB (689 MB -> 673 MB)
- pacman keyring handling improvements
- use qemu-static-user from [extra] for aarch64 iso assembling
(thanks David for implementing this in qemu package)

Environment changes:
- updated grub to 2.06.r322.gd9b4638c5-4
- fixed pacman keyring on aarch64
- updated OVMF_VARS.secboot.fd from fedora to 20220526git16779ede2d36-5
- added missing base programs:
nscd, archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync, makepkg-template, getsubids, update-pciids, ninfod, sln, lsfd
- fixed xorg and wayland startup
- implemented checking of missing base binaries
- simplified zram function for /usr directory mounting

setup/quickinst changes:
- always install latest archlinux keyring package(s), before doing pacman tasks
- abort on package installation or keyring failure
- added keyring initialization checks
- removed filesystem and systemd-sysvcompat hacks

Have fun,
greetings
tpowa

[tpowa]

New 2022.10 images uploaded:
- New RISC-V riscv64 architecture support
- possibility to turn system into a full Arch Linux system with -full-system parameter
By using: # update-installer -full-system
Every Archboot strip down gets reverted by reinstalling all packages to a zram /usr with readding of man/info pages and localization.
- firefox as new default standard browser for all architectures

Environment changes:
- updated grub to 2.06.r334.g340377470-1
- new logo including RISC-V 64
- possibility to choose between firefox and chromium with _STANDARD_BROWSER option in defaults file
- fix ca-certificates on updates

setup/quickinst changes:
- added riscv64 support

Have fun,
greetings
tpowa

[tpowa]

Hi,
New 2022.12 images uploaded.

Highlights:
- grub 2:2.06.r380.g151467888-1
- mkinitcpio 33-1
- Autodetect high resolution screens with setting 32 font size by default during boot
- Better Localization support: new Keymap, Console Fonts, Timezone and System-Wide Locale dialogs
- major code cleanup with merging script part and remove redundancy
- fixed performance regression in mkinitcpio 33

Environment changes:
- change to release year/month logo without kernel version
- added rpcuser
- fixed locale setting on aarch64
- use latarcyrheb-sun16 font as default console font
- use latarcyrheb-sun32 font on high resolution screens as default console font
- removed archboot's MOK key with signing kernel and grub on ISO, this broke reproducibilty

update-installer changes:
- more output on updating scripts

setup/quickinst changes:
- switch to zstd compression as first option on btrfs dialog
- reformat btrfs boxes

new Date and Time setting routine:
- splitted into Region and Timezone

new Keymap routine:
- splitted into locale and variants

new Console Font routine:
- only use latarcyrheb-sun(16,32) and eurlatgr font
- Autodetect high resolution screens with setting big font by default

Configuration step:
- rearranged most autoconfiguration to last step of install packages
- new System-Wide locale setting dialog on configuration step
- fixed partial broken autoconfiguration
- show more information dialogs on doing pre/autoconfiguration
- run mkinitcpio and locale-gen only when needed
- added check to avoid locked root account
- added check to avoid empty password
- don't allow empty root password

Fixes:
- fixed netlink up detection by ping www.google.com
- fixed broken bootloader installation menu call

Have fun,
greetings
tpowa