asahi-fedora-builder

Builds a minimal Fedora image to run on Apple M1/M2 systems

Installing a Prebuilt Image

Make sure to update your macOS to version 12.3 or later, then just pull up a Terminal in macOS and paste in this command:

curl https://leifliddy.com/fedora.sh | sh

Fedora Package Install

dnf install arch-install-scripts bubblewrap systemd-container zip

Notes

• qemu-user-static is also needed if building the image on a non-aarch64 system
• Until this PR is merged into the next mkosi release https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/pull/1264/commits
  install mksoi from main:
  python3 -m pip install --user git+https://github.com/systemd/mkosi.git

Notes

1. The root password is fedora
2. On the first boot the asahi-firstboot.service will run, selinux will be set to enforcing and the system will reboot.
3. This project installs packages from the Asahi Fedora Remix repos
   https://pagure.io/fedora-asahi/asahi-repos/tree/main

Setting up WiFi

NetworkManager is enabled by default.

To connect to a wireless network, use the following sytanx: nmcli dev wifi connect network-ssid

An actual example: nmcli dev wifi connect blacknet-ac password supersecretpassword

Wiping Linux

Bring up a Terminal in macOS and run the following Asahi Linux script:
sudo curl -L https://alx.sh/wipe-linux | sh
You should definitely understand what this script does before running it. You can find more info here:
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Partitioning-cheatsheet

Boot from USB device

Once Linux is installed on an M1 system, you can then boot a compatible usb drive via u-boot.
This project will create a bootable USB drive for M1 systems.
https://github.com/leifliddy/asahi-fedora-usb

Display and keyboard backlight

The light command can be used to adjust the screen and keyboard backlight.

light -s sysfs/leds/kbd_backlight -S 10
light -s sysfs/backlight/apple-panel-bl -S 50

Asahi Fedora Remix

As of 1 April 2023, this project now installs packages from the Asahi Fedora Remix repos
To transition from a previous F37 build ----> Asahi Fedora Remix
please see the following: #25

Fedora 37 Release

To upgrade from F36 --> F37 #11

Info on the official Fedora effort to support Apple silicon: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Asahi