I ported frood, my Alpine initramfs NAS (words.filippo.io/frood/) to an Ampere Altra 64-core arm64 board: github.com/FiloSottile/...

After a lot of struggling with gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aport... and Tianocore EFI for qemu, systemd-efistub and ukify just worked.

"Totally normal computer" :)

yaaaay. I just configured dracut-ukify and now it's okay. I think I just fuckled it last time I tried fixing the original problem of running out of space on the EFI partition when I decided to mess with unified images.

UKIFY ME AHDSJDWODKSK

listen birth weight discordance is a thing it causes one twin to be born noticably heavier than the other science supports you ukify away

eh, seems particleos is broken due to ukify bug, oh well will poke it again down the line... mkosi is still pretty cool.

now i'm just building an m68k linux image to run on qemu because why not

I could probably get ukify to work, but I deal with UEFI for work, so i'd rather not right now...

ukify Linux: armá Unified Kernel Images sin objcopy

Dejá de armar el boot a mano: aprendé a usar ukify linux para crear Unified Kernel Images de forma simple y práctica. ¡Descubrí cómo hacerlo!

#ukify #linux #secureboot #systemd #tpm2

“kernel-install is part of and packaged with systemd. The systemd-ukify optional dependency is also needed for unified kernel images unless a different UKI generator is specified”

kernel-install - ArchWiki wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel...

If you go for it, my next TODO is to try systemd's ukify, because efi-mkuki might not work at all: github.com/jirutka/efi-...

There are a lot of tools in modern systemd.
Systemd-boot, systemd-ukify, systemd-sbsign, systemd-cryptenroll, systemd-networkd, systemd-resolved... The list goes on and on.
And it's awesome for standardization. I can switch to any distro and find familiar tools. No need to rewrite my configs or […]

Encrypting a Debian install with UKI https://anarc.at/blog/2025-08-20-luks-ukify-conversion #Draft

you gotta chain dracut and kernel-install and systemd-ukify and sbctl but when i figured it out it worked great