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authorSimo Leone <simo@archlinux.org>2008-03-30 02:49:47 -0500
committerSimo Leone <simo@archlinux.org>2008-03-30 02:49:47 -0500
commit97ed563f00fc6cd4be3f91041fe455529bc1c89c (patch)
tree023c8fb081f0d39da824489c70290efcadeffa16 /mkusbimg
parenta278dabe5541bdd6e05ff12710ef5e47973e3b9e (diff)
downloadarchiso32-97ed563f00fc6cd4be3f91041fe455529bc1c89c.tar.xz
Added USB image creation script
mkusbimg creates bootable raw disk images that can be written to USB devices. It's intended to be on the same functional level as mkisofs. Signed-off-by: Simo Leone <simo@archlinux.org>
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# mkusbimg - creates a bootable disk image
+# Copyright (C) 2008 Simo Leone <simo@archlinux.org>
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# next_avail_loop()
+# prints the next available loopback device
+# returns 0 on success
+# 1 on failure
+# XXX: this is only necessary because
+# the cryptoloop patch for losetup
+# destroys losetup -f
+next_avail_loop()
+{
+ for i in /dev/loop/*; do
+ echo `losetup -a|cut -d':' -f1` | grep -q $i
+ if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
+ echo $i
+ return 0
+ fi
+ done
+ return 1
+}
+
+# usage(exitvalue)
+# outputs a usage message and exits with value
+APPNAME=$(basename "${0}")
+usage()
+{
+ echo "usage: ${APPNAME} <imageroot> <imagefile>"
+ exit $1
+}
+
+##################################################
+
+if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
+ usage 1
+fi
+
+IMG="${2}"
+IMGROOT="${1}"
+LOOPDEV=$(next_avail_loop)
+TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
+
+# TODO: there are better ways to do this
+# than adding 5MB to the rootsize
+# IMGSZ >= filesystem overhead + rootsize + 512bytes
+# must hold or there will be insufficient space
+IMGSZ=$(( $(du -ms ${IMGROOT}|cut -f1) + 5 ))
+
+# create the image file
+dd if=/dev/zero of="$IMG" bs=1M count="$IMGSZ"
+
+# loop mount the disk image
+losetup "$LOOPDEV" "$IMG"
+
+# create a partition table
+# if this looks like voodoo, it's because it is
+echo "63,,,*,"|sfdisk -uS "$LOOPDEV"
+
+# loop mount the partition we just made
+# that magic number (offset in bytes to first partition) is more voodoo
+losetup -d "$LOOPDEV"
+losetup -o32256 "$LOOPDEV" "$IMG"
+
+# create a filesystem on our partition
+mke2fs -m 0 "$LOOPDEV"
+
+# mount the filesystem and copy data
+mount "$LOOPDEV" "$TMPDIR"
+cp -a "$IMGROOT"/* "$TMPDIR"
+
+# unmount filesystem and loopback
+umount "$TMPDIR"
+losetup -d "$LOOPDEV"
+
+# install grub on the image
+grub --no-floppy --batch << EOF
+device (hd0) $IMG
+root (hd0,0)
+setup (hd0)
+EOF
+
+# all done :)
+rm -fr "$TMPDIR"