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Mikhail Chusavitin 8d173175eb Add chroot hook to strip all xattrs before squashfs creation

mksquashfs 4.5.1 (bookworm) writes a non-SQUASHFS_INVALID_BLK value for
xattr_id_table_start in the superblock even when -no-xattrs is passed, if
the source chroot contains POSIX ACL xattrs set by dpkg at install time.
Linux 6.1 squashfs driver then fails with "unable to read xattr id index
table" and refuses to mount the filesystem.

Strip all xattrs from the chroot via Python3 (already present) immediately
before mksquashfs runs. With an xattr-free source tree the resulting
squashfs is guaranteed to have SQUASHFS_INVALID_BLK in the xattr field.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-05-04 17:44:09 +03:00

builder

Add chroot hook to strip all xattrs before squashfs creation

2026-05-04 17:44:09 +03:00

overlay

Split live rootfs into smaller squashfs layers

2026-05-03 23:15:22 +03:00

vendor

Add vendor RAID tools for livecd

2026-04-29 17:31:25 +03:00

README.md

Drop redundant rebuild-image flag

2026-04-29 10:01:57 +03:00

README.md

ISO Build

bee ISO is built inside a Debian 12 builder container via iso/builder/build-in-container.sh.

Requirements

Docker Desktop or another Docker-compatible container runtime
Privileged containers enabled
Enough free disk space for builder cache, Debian live-build artifacts, NVIDIA driver cache, and CUDA userspace packages

Build On macOS

From the repository root:

sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh

The script defaults to linux/amd64 builder containers, so it works on:

Intel Mac
Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4) via Docker Desktop's Linux VM

You do not need to pass --platform manually for normal ISO builds.

Useful Options

Build with explicit SSH keys baked into the ISO:

sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh --authorized-keys ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

Force a clean rebuild of the builder image and build caches:

sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh --clean-build

Use a custom cache directory:

sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh --cache-dir /path/to/cache

Notes

The builder image is automatically rebuilt if the local tag exists for the wrong architecture.
The live ISO boots with Debian live-boot toram, so the read-only medium is copied into RAM during boot and the runtime no longer depends on the original USB/BMC virtual media staying present.
Target systems need enough RAM for the full compressed live medium plus normal runtime overhead, or boot may fail before reaching the TUI.
The NVIDIA variant installs DCGM 4 packages matched to the CUDA user-mode driver major version. For driver branch 590 / CUDA 13.x, the package family is datacenter-gpu-manager-4-cuda13 rather than legacy datacenter-gpu-manager.
Override the container platform only if you know why:

BEE_BUILDER_PLATFORM=linux/amd64 sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh

The shipped ISO is still amd64.
Output ISO artifacts are written under dist/.