#!/bin/bash # Copy the live kernel into the freshly-unpacked target /boot. # # archiso keeps vmlinuz/initramfs in the ISO boot dir (arch/boot/x86_64/), NOT # in the squashfs, so the rootfs that unpackfs lays down has an empty /boot. # The kernel must be present before Calamares' `initcpio` module runs mkinitcpio # (the stock linux.preset points ALL_kver at /boot/vmlinuz-linux) and before the # `bootloader` module runs grub — otherwise the installed system is unbootable. # # Runs in the LIVE environment (Calamares shellprocess, dontChroot); the # target root mount point is passed as $1. # # The kernel is read from /usr/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/vmlinuz — part of the # live squashfs itself (the linux package always installs it there), not from # the ISO's separate arch/boot/x86_64/ dir under /run/archiso/bootmnt. That # mount gets torn down by archiso's own copytoram handling, which self-enables # on most real hardware, so depending on it here would leave $ROOT/boot empty # and the install unbootable on exactly the machines this is meant to run on. set -uo pipefail ROOT="${1:?target root required}" KVER="$(uname -r)" SRC_KERNEL="/usr/lib/modules/${KVER}/vmlinuz" SRC_BOOT="/run/archiso/bootmnt/arch/boot/x86_64" install -d -m 0755 "$ROOT/boot" if [ -f "$SRC_KERNEL" ]; then cp -f "$SRC_KERNEL" "$ROOT/boot/vmlinuz-linux" elif [ -f "$SRC_BOOT/vmlinuz-linux" ]; then echo "WARN: $SRC_KERNEL missing, falling back to $SRC_BOOT" cp -f "$SRC_BOOT/vmlinuz-linux" "$ROOT/boot/vmlinuz-linux" else echo "ERROR: no kernel image found (checked $SRC_KERNEL and $SRC_BOOT/vmlinuz-linux) — install would be unbootable" >&2 exit 1 fi # Microcode, if the live medium carries it (grub-mkconfig picks it up). This # is best-effort: post-install.sh's mkinitcpio `microcode` HOOKS entry embeds # microcode from /usr/lib/firmware directly, so a missing standalone ucode.img # here is not boot-critical, unlike the kernel image above. for u in amd-ucode.img intel-ucode.img; do [ -f "$SRC_BOOT/$u" ] && cp -f "$SRC_BOOT/$u" "$ROOT/boot/$u" done # Replace the archiso initramfs setup that unpackfs copied from the live medium. # On archiso the linux preset is PRESETS=('archiso') using archiso.conf (the live # HOOKS). Calamares' `initcpio` runs `mkinitcpio -P`, which would build that # archiso preset and either bake the live-boot hooks into the install or fail # once archiso.conf is gone. Drop the drop-in and write a stock default+fallback # preset so `initcpio` produces a normal, bootable initramfs from the config that # the `initcpiocfg` module generates at /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. rm -f "$ROOT/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/archiso.conf" install -d -m 0755 "$ROOT/etc/mkinitcpio.d" cat >"$ROOT/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset" <<'PRESET' # mkinitcpio preset file for the 'linux' package ALL_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf" ALL_kver="/boot/vmlinuz-linux" PRESETS=('default' 'fallback') default_image="/boot/initramfs-linux.img" fallback_image="/boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img" fallback_options="-S autodetect" PRESET echo "Copied live kernel into $ROOT/boot; reset mkinitcpio to a stock preset"