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Support generating Unified System Images

USIs are fundamentally UKIs, but the whole rootfs is embedded as initrd and no /etc/initrd-release is present. IOW, it's a initrd that does not mark itself as so and never switch_root to somewhere else.

Since nowadays archiso usually just automatically copies itself to RAM, this shouldn't create too much churn. The result would be a single .efi file, that can be trivially dropped into the ESP for maintenance work, instead of having to figure out the right boot params to be able to chainload archiso.

To upload designs, you'll need to enable LFS and have an admin enable hashed storage. More information