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.. index:: COREOS_INSTALLER
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CoreOS Installer
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The CoreOS installer is a set of script running on the target and a
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corresponding bitbake image that is used into the bootstrap process of CoreOS.
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coreos-image-installer
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The CoreOS installer image is a single binary EFI file that include a kernel,
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device tree and an initramfs with all the tools needed to install CoreOS.
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An installer image is automatically built in parallel of a normal image.
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This can be deactivated by setting `COREOS_IMAGE_GENERATE_INSTALLER` to 0.
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The installer image build by default only a single EFI binary named
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coreos-installer-MACHINE.efi. An SDCard image can be generate if
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`COREOS_INSTALLER_WKS_FILE` is set to a wks file.
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coreos-installer
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The coreos-installer recipe installs some script that is used at startup
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to automatically format the internal emmc of the device. It also contains
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a swupdate configuration file to setup swupdate correctly for that use case.
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coreos-installer-config
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The coreos-installer-config recipe installs device specific configuration file
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used by the coreos-installer. This includes the partitionner config file. Distro
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and project based on CoreOS can change the partionning scheme or partition size
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by installing their own version of this package using a `bbappend file`.
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