A new pre-release of ChimeraOS is now available for testing. The ChimeraOS install media has gone through a bunch of upgrades to make it even better.
Now, it supports controllers, has a fancy graphical boot with plymouth, hides the boot menu, and even disables the watchdog. It also gives you a heads up when you're installing to external drives and prevents you from installing to drives that are too small (under 55 GB). Plus, they've made the disk descriptions easier to understand and added a cool probe.sh script. They've also dropped support for legacy boot and included frzr 0.15.1 to make installer changes a breeze.
ChimeraOS install-media 2024-09-08 (99e7e08)
ChimeraOS install media. Contribute to ChimeraOS/install-media development by creating an account on GitHub.
various fixes and improvements
- add controller support
- graphical boot with plymouth
- hide boot menu
- disable watchdog
- warn when installing to external drives
- prevent installing to drives less than 55 GB in size
- use more human readable disk descriptions
- allow disk descriptions to be overridden
- include 'probe.sh' script to gather information about devices
- hide boot/install disk from list of disks
- skip disk selection step if only a single disk is available
- copy changes to improve clarity
- dropped support for legacy boot
- drop Steam bootstrap installation (was causing first boot to fail)
- drop Advanced install option to avoid confusion
- drop local install option
- include frzr 0.15.1 with some changes to frzr-bootstrap to facilitate installer changes
