Preparations for 'Booting XYZ FIle'

The disk to be used should be:

• Boot Target in BIOS/ UEFI
• First in the BIOS/ UEFI boot order

The disk used in this example is /dev/sda.

1. Prepare Disk partition layout
   • Create two partitions on the disk (use, e.g., fdisk, parted, etc)
     • 1MB (flags: boot)
     • 10G or more as you want/ need (flags: boot), ext4 formatted
   • Run blkid /dev/sda2 -s UUID -o value to get the UUID of the "first" disk's second partition.
     • Save the UUID of the "first" disk down. The UUID of the "first" disk will be used in form of the __BOOT_PART_UUID__ later on.
2. Mount "boot" Partition
   • Mount the second created partition (/dev/sda2): mount /dev/sda2 /boot.
3. Download Fedora vmlinuz, initramfs and install.img to /boot directory.
   • Prefix the downloaded files with fedora- (or whatever you want as long as you change it in the upcoming steps as well)
4. Grub Installation
   • For GRUB2:

grub2-install --no-floppy /dev/sda2
```

* For GRUB:

```bash
grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda2
```

5. Create GRUB boot config file
* For GRUB2 the path is `/boot/grub2/grub.cfg`.
* For GRUB the path is `/boot/grub/grub.cfg`.

Optional steps:

1. Copy your Kickstart and/ or config file to the /boot directory
   • This assumes the "system" you are using is able to open the /boot mounted partition and read the file from there, e.g., Kickstart can do it like that inst.ks="hd:UUID=__BOOT_PART_UUID__:/ks.cfg" (where the __BOOT_PART_UUID__ is the partition UUID).
2. Reboot and enjoy!