commit 66197bde6006b52a669dd9d9f684a496392ee597
Author: Skip Grube <sgrube@ciq.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 15 15:38:29 2024 -0400

    Initial commit
    
    kickstart, launcher script, and readme

diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt
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+Skip's Rocky 9 i686 experiment
+###############################
+
+Background
+###########
+Simple project, simple goal:  Get Rocky 9 latest booting and working on i686 (32 bit) hardware.  Why?  Because we can.  And it's fun!
+
+Almost everything we need is already present in the distro.  The Rocky project needs to build the vast majority of itself as i686 anyway, to satisfy multilib requirements.
+Fortunately thanks to excellent publication and repo management, an almost-complete i686 distro is ready-published in the "devel" repository:  https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/devel/i686/ 
+It won't have everything (Lots of GUI programs like Firefox are missing), but certainly enough to make a functional system
+
+
+Only one (big) piece is missing: the kernel.  The RHEL/Rocky kernel build is unsuitable for this, having patches on top of patches with a tricky build process.
+Fortunately, there is a much cleaner kernel RPM courtesy of ELRepo (elrepo.org).  A set of i686 kernel RPMS was built from the kernel-lt 6.1.x base in short order, and they seem to work!
+Combining these i686 kernel RPMs with the Rocky 9 devel/ i686 repository gives everything you need for a bootable system.  Kickstart and livemedia-creator means a rudimentary image is currently prototyped and available.
+
+
+
+Where to Download
+##############
+
+QCow2 image:  https://skiprocky.linuxdn.org/Rocky9_i686/
+
+DNF i686 kernel repo:                     https://skiprocky.linuxdn.org/Rocky9_i686/kernel_repo/
+Kickstart + scripts for image create:     https://git.resf.org/skip/rocky-i686
+kernel sources (elrepo fork):             https://git.resf.org/skip/kernel-lt
+Rocky 9 i686 devel (userspace packages):  https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/devel/i686/
+
+
+
+Image Info
+###########
+
+Login:
+  root : Rockyi686Test  
+  Recommend you change it.
+
+
+Cloud-init:
+  Is available and setup by default.  If you have means of triggering it, additional users/auth methods could be set up upon boot
+
+
+Write disk to physical drive or USB:
+  qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O raw rocky9_i686.qcow2  /dev/sdb
+  (IMPORTANT:  make sure "/dev/sdb" is your target device!  Don't overwrite your main system's drive!)
+  
+
+Expand disk to fill hard drive:
+  growpart /dev/sda 2
+  resize2fs /dev/sda2
+  
+  (This assumes "/dev/sda" is the drive in the installed system.  It could be different - check with blkid)
+
+
+Building the image:
+  Run ./rocky9_i686_build.sh with administrator privileges.  You will need to update the script - point to a valid Rocky 9 boot iso (stock iso is fine).
+  You also need qemu-kvm and livemedia-creator (lorax) installed
+
+
+
diff --git a/rocky9_i686.ks b/rocky9_i686.ks
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+lang en_US.UTF-8
+keyboard us
+timezone --utc UTC
+# Disk
+bootloader --append="no_timer_check  net.ifnames=0" --location=mbr --timeout=5
+auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
+selinux --permissive
+firewall --enabled --service=ssh
+firstboot --disable
+# Network information
+network  --bootproto=dhcp --device=link --activate --onboot=on
+# Root password
+services --disabled="kdump,rhsmcertd" --enabled="NetworkManager,sshd,rsyslog,chronyd,cloud-init,cloud-init-local,cloud-config,cloud-final,rngd"
+
+# DEBUG :: set root password static for now
+rootpw Rockyi686Test
+shutdown
+
+##
+##
+
+%pre
+# Set up storage
+(
+# Clear the Master Boot Record
+dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
+# Create a new GPT partition table
+parted /dev/sda mklabel msdos
+
+# Create a partition for /boot
+parted /dev/sda mkpart primary ext4 1MiB 1000MiB
+parted /dev/sda set 1 boot on
+
+# Create for /
+parted /dev/sda mkpart primary ext4 1000MiB 9000MiB
+) &> /tmp/storage_setup.log
+%end
+
+###
+###
+
+part /boot --fstype="ext4" --label=boot --size=1000 --onpart="sda1"
+part / --size=8000 --fstype="ext4" --onpart="sda2"
+
+###
+###
+
+url --url=https://skiprocky.linuxdn.org/Rocky9_i686/kernel_repo/
+repo --name=Rocky9_Kernel_i686 --cost=20 --baseurl=https://skiprocky.linuxdn.org/Rocky9_i686/kernel_repo/
+repo --name=Rocky9_i686 --cost=200 --baseurl=http://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/devel/i686/os/
+
+###
+###
+
+%packages --nocore
+# @Core group (no groupinfo in i686 devel, have to list it out here):
+audit
+basesystem
+bash
+coreutils
+cronie
+crypto-policies
+crypto-policies-scripts
+curl
+dnf
+e2fsprogs
+filesystem
+firewalld
+glibc
+grubby
+hostname
+iproute
+iproute-tc
+iputils
+irqbalance
+kbd
+kexec-tools
+less
+logrotate
+man-db
+ncurses
+openssh-clients
+openssh-server
+p11-kit
+parted
+passwd
+policycoreutils
+procps-ng
+rootfiles
+rpm
+rpm-plugin-audit
+rsyslog
+selinux-policy-targeted
+setup
+shadow-utils
+sssd-common
+sssd-kcm
+sudo
+systemd
+util-linux
+vim-minimal
+xfsprogs
+yum
+NetworkManager
+NetworkManager-team
+NetworkManager-tui
+authselect
+dnf-plugins-core
+dracut-config-rescue
+initscripts-rename-device
+iwl100-firmware
+iwl1000-firmware
+iwl105-firmware
+iwl135-firmware
+iwl2000-firmware
+iwl2030-firmware
+iwl3160-firmware
+iwl5000-firmware
+iwl5150-firmware
+iwl6000g2a-firmware
+iwl6050-firmware
+iwl7260-firmware
+libsysfs
+linux-firmware
+lshw
+lsscsi
+microcode_ctl
+#prefixdevname
+python3-libselinux
+sg3_utils
+sg3_utils-libs
+
+# Other core packages needed:
+rocky-release
+dnf
+yum
+nfs-utils
+dnf-utils
+hostname
+
+
+# Extra goodies from stock GenericCloud image:
+cloud-init
+cloud-utils-growpart
+python3-jsonschema
+dracut-config-generic
+firewalld
+tar
+tcpdump
+rsync
+rng-tools
+cockpit-ws
+cockpit-system
+#qemu-guest-agent
+virt-what
+
+# i686 specific kernel and bootloaders:
+kernel-lt
+kernel-lt-core
+kernel-lt-modules
+kernel-lt-modules-extra
+grub2-pc
+grub2-pc-modules
+grub2-tools
+grub2-tools-extra
+
+
+# Other
+glibc-langpack-en
+glibc-all-langpacks
+tmux
+bash-completion
+wget
+%end
+
+###
+###
+
+
+%post --erroronfail
+# Ensure legacy BIOS is installed properly (this is i686, no UEFI here)
+grub2-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda
+grubby --update-kernel=ALL --remove-args " crashkernel=1G-4G:192M,4G-64G:256M,64G-:512M" --args="console=ttyS0,115200 forcepae"
+
+# setup systemd to boot to the right runlevel
+rm -f /etc/systemd/system/default.target
+ln -s /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target
+
+# generic localhost names
+cat > /etc/hosts << EOF
+127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
+::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
+EOF
+
+
+echo "Fixing SELinux contexts."
+touch /var/log/cron
+touch /var/log/boot.log
+mkdir -p /var/cache/yum
+/usr/sbin/fixfiles -R -a restore
+
+
+rm -f /var/lib/systemd/random-seed
+cat /dev/null > /etc/machine-id
+
+%end
+
+###
+
+%post --erroronfail
+
+# Set up repos to only point to i686-kernel and i686 Rocky devel:
+sed -i 's/enabled=1/# Disabling repo due to i686-only system\nenabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
+
+cat <<EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/Rocky9_i686.repo
+# Skips i686 Rocky kernel (adapted from ELRepo)
+[kernel-i686]
+name=kernel-i686
+baseurl=https://skiprocky.linuxdn.org/Rocky9_i686/kernel_repo/
+priority=20
+gpgcheck=0
+enabled=1
+
+
+# Rocky 9 "devel" repo has all i686 packages needed in userspace
+[Rocky9-i686]
+name=Rocky9-i686
+baseurl=https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/devel/i686/os/
+gpgcheck=1
+gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-Rocky-9
+enabled=1
+EOF
+
+
+# Set up swapfile:
+dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.img bs=10M count=150
+mkswap /var/swap.img
+chmod 0600 /var/swap.img
+echo "/var/swap.img    none   swap  defaults  0 0" >> /etc/fstab
+
+%end
diff --git a/rocky9_i686_build.sh b/rocky9_i686_build.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Change ROCKYISO to a proper Rocky 9 boot iso path  - it will launch and run Anaconda
+# can connect via VNC to localhost:5931 to examine the system as it builds
+
+# This should be run as root/sudo.  Log output goes in the current dir, image goes in ./rocky9_i686_image/
+
+rm -rf $(pwd)/rocky9_i686_image
+rm -f $(pwd)/*.log
+
+ROCKYISO=/root/Rocky-9-latest-x86_64-boot.iso
+
+livemedia-creator \
+--ks ./rocky9_i686.ks \
+--resultdir $(pwd)/rocky9_i686_image \
+--project "Rocky 9 i686" \
+--make-disk --qcow2   --image-type qcow2 \
+--iso ${ROCKYISO} \
+--vnc="vnc=127.0.0.1:31"  --ram 4096 --vcpus 2 \
+--image-name "rocky9_i686.qcow2"