u-root
A fully Go userland with Linux bootloaders! u-root can create a one-binary root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go. (by u-root)
booster
Fast and secure initramfs generator (by anatol)
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| u-root | booster | |
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| 9 | 27 | |
| 2,430 | 451 | |
| 1.0% | - | |
| 9.7 | 6.3 | |
| 4 days ago | 20 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
u-root
Posts with mentions or reviews of u-root.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-28.
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Monogon: A Linux userland in pure Go
It looks similar to u-root https://github.com/u-root/u-root, yes, used as part of host firmware. There's a description of u-root in chapter 6 of https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7939-7, too.
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Gokrazy – Go Appliances
"A fully Go userland with Linux bootloaders! u-root can create a one-binary root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go." https://github.com/u-root/u-root
- Gokrazy Is Cool
- O que vocês acham da linguagem Goolang?
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Is it possible to install a linux specific package on osx?
I am trying to build something with github.com/u-root/u-root/pkg/strace, but the issue I am running into is that my dev environment is an ARM Mac, while the package is specific to Unix systems.
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Coreutils Rewritten in Rust
I've seem a few attempts. This is just one example: https://github.com/u-root/u-root/tree/master/cmds/core
- u-root – many Linux tools in a single Golang binary, initramfs, and bootloader
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Writing an init with Go (part 1)
Great material! This approach is also used in u-root - Golang busybox created for LinuxBoot. I really enjoy working with it so far!
booster
Posts with mentions or reviews of booster.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
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PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function
People should stop using plain passwords to protect data and switch to something better.oster/ + Yubikey
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[Boot error] Initramfs unpacking failed after updating to 6.0.1
Change from mkinitcpio to booster. It's faster and produce smaller images.
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Dracut or Genkernel?
Neither, use booster.
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Booster initramfs release 0.9 got ZFS support
Booster is an initramfs - a type of software that runs early during the boot process and helps to setup system, e.g. perform disk unlock, load extra drivers, setup ZFS filesystem, and so on.
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You can end up without any kernel to boot if your computer crashes during a pacman update
I don't have high hopes that this will change in mkinitcpio, but perhaps you could bring it up with booster (which copied the mkinitcpio hooks and removal scripts)
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Is There Something To Improve to my arch install "Guide"?
This is my personal preference, but consider switching to booster.
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What is your current setup? Bootloader, filesystem, partitions, etc.
initramfs: booster - TPM2 support, way faster than mkinitcpio, autodiscovering root partition
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Complex Issue:
Note I'm using booster, so assuming you're using the default mkinitcpio you probably want /boot/initramfs-linux.img. Also, don't forget to modify if your ESP isn't mounted at /boot like mine.
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Systemd 250 released
Booster initramfs generator supports TPM, Yubikey and Network binding so you can easily protect your data using the strategy you want.
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Booster dont loads with efistub
GPT table detection has higher priority at booster code. But for some reason it does not identify your partition table as GPT. Filed a github bug for it https://github.com/anatol/booster/issues/119
What are some alternatives?
When comparing u-root and booster you can also consider the following projects:
dracut-sshd - Provide SSH access to initramfs early user space on Fedora and other systems that use Dracut
tang - Tang binding daemon
nhi - :tv: Automatically capture all potentially useful information about each executed command (as well as its output) and get powerful querying mechanism
yubikey-full-disk-encryption - Use YubiKey to unlock a LUKS partition
coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
void-packages - The Void source packages collection
router7 - router7 is a small home internet router completely written in Go. It is implemented as a gokrazy appliance.
sslmgr - A layer of abstraction the around acme/autocert certificate manager (Golang)
nushell - A new type of shell
zip - Fork of Go's archive/zip to add reading/writing of password protected zip files.
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
set - Package set is a small wrapper around the official reflect package that facilitates loose type conversion and assignment into native Go types.