Initium

🚨 This branch contains a work in process rewriting of the current features to Rust. If you want to see the older version you can find it here.

Table of Contents

  1 Introduction
  2 Using Initium
    2.1 Requirements
    2.2 Build
    2.3 Test

1 Introduction

Intinitum is a bootloader for the x86 processors (the goals is to add ARM and RISC-V). Currently, supports Unified Extended Firmware Interface(UEFI). This bootloader was originally created for the Infinity OS project.

2 Build

2.1 Requirements

Here is a list of required tools to build Initium. Note that, currently, the build system only support Unix-like Operating Systems.

• Rust
• QEMU
• Python 3

Before moving with the build, please fetch all submodules:

git submodules update --init

2.2 Build

With the dependencies correctly installed the build process is very simples. On the root of the project there is a build.py file with some useful commands to assist with the build process.

To compile the bootloader you must simply run the following command:

$ ./build.py build

The first build will take longer to download and compile the dependencies, but the consequent ones will be incremental.

2.3 Test

There is a simples test environment that uses QEMU to test the Initium. The build script also has a command to launch it:

$ ./build.py run

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2014-present, Gil Mendes