A Small GUI Linux System with UEFI completely running on RAMDisk
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I am developing a POS System and I am planning to use Linux.
My requirements are as follows
1. UEFI Support. (Running on x86 and x86_64)
2. No Storage Drive so completely running on RAM and persistence storage data(Around 1 MB) will be in ESP (EFI System Partition)
3. A GUI Application displaying options for POS.
4. Wireless connectivity (Not immediately but eventually)
5. No installation required. (Just copy kernel and initrd images to ESP along with systemd-boot and good to go.)
I have been able to run Minimal Live Linux (https://github.com/ivandavidov/minimal) where kernel and initrd images are stored in EFI System Partition. It could connect to Wired Network and I could login to Bash.
Next step is to load GUI (XOrg or Something else) and add my own GUI application.
I am stuck at a point where I want to create a initrd image with GUI support.
Any pointers on that direction?
Asked by HunterGathererCoder
(53 rep)
Oct 3, 2020, 03:47 PM
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Last activity: Oct 4, 2020, 02:38 PM