| title | Limine |
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| description | |
| published | 1 |
| date | 2024-09-09 16:51:47 UTC |
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| editor | markdown |
| dateCreated | 2024-09-09 16:51:47 UTC |
Limine is an advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader, which is the default bootloader for eweOS.
Limine is provided by limine package on eweOS.
limine-install is a script to simplify installation of Limine, works just like grub-install. To use it, make sure efibootmgr is installed on your system (already listed as limine's optional dependency) or boot entries cannot be created automatically.
Assuming your EFI partition is mounted on /boot, you could install Limine with
limine-install /boot
Some firmwares are picky (and not following the UEFI specification) with bootloader paths. Or limine-install may fail to create a boot entry on your machine. In these cases, try running limine-install with --removable argument, installing Limine in removable mode.
UEFI-mode Limine is a PE executable file, located at /usr/share/limine/. Filename varies on different architectures, on x86_64 it is BOOTX64.EFI. Copy it to EFI_MOUNTPOINT/EFI/BOOT.
TODO
limine-mkconfig generates Limine configuration automatically. Configuration path should be specified with -o, like
limine-mkconfig -o /boot/limine.conf
(Limine after 8.0.0 uses limine.conf as default configuration name)
For now, other booting related work like kernel installation and initramfs generation is also handled by limine-mkconfig. So you should run it after a kernel upgrade or similar scenarios.