Bootable x86 Ubuntu 20 images

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Hi all, I’m new here. We use an x86 device that has a sata drive. I’ve been following the guides and googling around and managed to get everything to a point where my device was booting into grub with the mender img on the drive. I’m stuck there but not giving up yet. I was wondering however, if I get this working, can I get to a point where I just have the image deployable via unattended USB? We have a warehouse that orders the devices and I just want them to plug a usb in to load the OS.

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Hi @pinter,

Sounds like you basically want a provisioning process, right? In a nutshell, this is quite outside the scope of Mender itself, but you could try something like this:

  • create a bootable USB drive running Ubuntu or something
  • place the image which you want to flash to the hard disk on the USB drive
  • create a script with runs upon startup and writes the image to the hard disk.
    This can be done as nice and fancy or bare bones as you like.

Greetz,
Josef