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Hello Fienix Fans.

I thought I would put together a short guide for those interested in booting live Fienix images using my X1Boot Manager. Booting from USB can be fiddly with needing some commands to run. And that is if your X1000 can see your USB drive at all. So this guide can help speed up the process as booting kernel off even HDD will be faster. It can also be used as a guide for other installer images with changes.

Update:
I have included some download links for kernels ready to go. See below.


Prerequisites:

• You will need a working system with X1Boot installed.
• A USB drive with the live image preloaded as per the Fienix instructions.
• A compatible kernel if you need one. Current release uses kernel zImage-6.1. If you need a kernel you can grab a 6.1 kernel archive from xeno74's site or a kernel image from the Fienix installer boot partition. In the later case you can just plug in the USB drive with Fienix installer and grab it.

Set up:

• Open up X1Boot and choose to Edit Settings. Set Ramdisk to On.
• I recommend setting format to XZ compression. It's slower to install kernel with. But GZ kernels may be too large to boot with as it also requires a ramdisk to boot.
• Chose Ok to accept.

Kernel:

• Chose Edit Kernels if you need to install a kernel. Otherwise skip to the next section about Menu.
• For a kernel image select to Install Images and select it.
• For a kernel archive select to Install Archives and select. Note that this will require root.
• Chose Ok to exit.

Menu:

• Chose Edit Menu to get onto the good stuff.
• Select Add Entry.
• Follow guide below to configure for installer or live image.

Fienix Installer (CUB):

• Enter a label and press OK. What ever you like. Such as "FI" or "Fienix Installer".
• Select a zImage-6.1 or vmlinux-6.1 kernel and press OK. Other kernels are compatible like 6.3. If you like.
• Set boot options to this and press OK: root=LABEL=FI

Fienix Live Image:

• Enter a label and press OK. What ever you like. Such as "FL" or "Fienix Live".
• Select a zImage-6.1 or vmlinux-6.1 kernel and press OK. Other kernels are compatible like 6.3. If you like.
• Set boot options to this and press OK: root=LABEL=FIENIX

• Now press OK to go back to main menu and OK again to exit manager.

You are now ready to boot Fienix Installer or Live Image. I've done this with both. In my case I imaged Fienix to an SSD enclosed in a USB3 cradle. Just in case it was faster. The booting was quite snappy.

You can now simply reboot. Ensure your Fienix USB drive is plugged in. Then pick relevant option from boot menu to boot up Fienix!

You could also add an entry for both the installer and live image. And then test both. One after the other.


Thanks for reading and hope this helps to get Fienix up and booting easily on the X1000.


Download links

• Fienix images:
  https://fienixppc.blogspot.com/p/cfe.html
• Kernel 6.1, 6.3 and ramdisk 6.3 in this folder:
  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing