The live USB is working fine. I tried installing and get the output below. I also tried using some terminal commands to try and manually check the status of the images such as
sudo podman images --all
and it asks for a root password and I don't know what to put there. I figured it would be either blank or "rakuos" but neither of those work.
I have to admit I'm being a bit crazy in that I am trying to use this as my first full time Linux distro.
I do have many years working in IT but it has been almost all in windows environments. I installed Bazzite for my kids on a few old PCs too old to support Windows 11 and it was such a breath of fresh air and the atomic nature already saved one of their devices so I really don't want to give that up. I also don't want to be locked down either as a full time IT guy. So this distro project seems like the perfect target if I can get it working.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Recipe: disk=Some(/dev/nvme0n1) encryption.kind=none passphrase_len=0
Partitioning disk
+ fuser -km /dev/nvme0n1
+ blockdev --flushbufs /dev/nvme0n1
+ udevadm settle
[err] Partition #1 contains a vfat signature.
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... OK
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 953.87 GiB, 1024209543168 bytes, 2000409264 sectors
Disk model: SKHynix_HFS001TDE9X081N
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: C32C0B7F-1EF0-48D6-AEBE-0141D44AF43B
Old situation:
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 1050624 3147775 2097152 1G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p3 3147776 2000408575 1997260800 952.4G Linux filesystem
>>> Script header accepted.
>>> Created a new GPT disklabel (GUID: 78EC3B78-AF68-429D-9A4A-C95973E738DE).
/dev/nvme0n1p1: Created a new partition 1 of type 'EFI System' and of size 512 MiB.
/dev/nvme0n1p2: Created a new partition 2 of type 'Linux filesystem' and of size 1 GiB.
[err] Partition #2 contains a ext4 signature.
/dev/nvme0n1p3: Created a new partition 3 of type 'Linux filesystem' and of size 952.4 GiB.
[err] Partition #3 contains a btrfs signature.
/dev/nvme0n1p4: Done.
New situation:
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 78EC3B78-AF68-429D-9A4A-C95973E738DE
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 1050624 3147775 2097152 1G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p3 3147776 2000408575 1997260800 952.4G Linux filesystem
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
+ udevadm settle
+ udevadm settle
+ partprobe /dev/nvme0n1
+ udevadm settle
Formatting EFI partition
+ mkfs.fat -F32 -n EFI-SYSTEM /dev/nvme0n1p1
+ mkfs.ext4 -L boot -F /dev/nvme0n1p2
mke2fs 1.47.3 (8-Jul-2025)
Formatting root filesystem
+ mkfs.btrfs -f -L root /dev/nvme0n1p3
Mounting filesystem
+ mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt/bootc-installer-target
Creating btrfs subvolume @
+ btrfs subvolume create /mnt/bootc-installer-target/@
Creating btrfs subvolume @home
+ btrfs subvolume create /mnt/bootc-installer-target/@home
Creating btrfs subvolume @snapshots
+ btrfs subvolume create /mnt/bootc-installer-target/@snapshots
+ umount /mnt/bootc-installer-target
+ mount -o subvol=@,compress=zstd:1,noatime /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt/bootc-installer-target
+ mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt/bootc-installer-target/boot
+ mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/bootc-installer-target/boot/efi
Prepping OS image
[err] umount: /mnt/bootc-installer-target/.rakuos-installer-scratch: target is busy.
+ umount -R /mnt/bootc-installer-target/boot/efi
+ umount -R /mnt/bootc-installer-target/boot
+ umount -R /mnt/bootc-installer-target
fatal: bootc install: Image 'quay.io/rakuos/rakuos-kde:latest' is not present in local container storage. The live ISO should already contain the image — reinstall from a fresh ISO.
{"type":"done","success":false,"elapsed_ms":3066,"timestamp":"1788557832"}