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Sadly syslinux is dead:

Warning: Syslinux uses the deprecated EFI handover protocol, but officially supported kernels starting with version 6.2 are built without CONFIG_EFI_HANDOVER_PROTOCOL. Booting such kernels with UEFI Syslinux will fail.

So it still works on MBR systems, but the code in https://github.com/kousu/arch-conf/tree/installer/arch-install that assumes it can mix syslinux and EFI needs to go.

The syslinux package still has its EFI code around, but it's only usable by compiling a custom kernel, which is a non-starter for this project. (I hope they just axe it entirely).

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I've tried out UKI and it works great! At least on the hardware I tried. It means writing two files:

• /etc/kernel/cmdline, setting root=..., rw, and stuff like vga=773, consoleblank=600 and any sysctls that should be on during early boot
• /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset, setting default_uki="/boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi"

There's an optional third file too, setting a splash screen somewhere (see the wiki for details)

After that, every pacman -S linux will run mkinitcpio -p linux which will build bootx64.efi which is a copy of the kernel directly bootable by EFI, no bootloader needed. This is actually better than syslinux.

Hi!

I got this error message when running sudo pacman -U kousu-device-nigiri-..... (Also I'm typing out this error message because I can't yet copy-paste from the arch system.)

warning: cannot resolve "firefox-clearurls", a dependency of "kousu-device-nigiri"
warning: cannot resolve "firefox-extension-privacybadger", a dependency of "kousu-device-nigiri"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
    kousu-device-nigiri

I just tried to use this on a fresh system and found that nothing past this point

seems to have run. iwd wasn't enabled, locale-gen hadn't been run. I'm not sure why.

I did run it with pacstrap -U /mnt kousu-device-nigiri*.zst, instead of with pacman, but that shouldn't have made a difference.