Completing the eLxr Edge OSTree Installation¶

About This Task¶

Once you initially boot the eLxr Edge image with OSTree, the Enter shell for manual install prompt will display. At this point, the installation is not yet complete, as the image has not been fully installed to the target drive. To complete the installation, you must as a minimum specify the installation drive and run the tiler application to complete the installation as described in the following steps.

Before You Begin¶

You must have an eLxr 26.04 image on bootable media supported by your hardware device. For details, see Downloading the eLxr Image.
You must have a supported hardware device with UEFI enabled in BIOS. For details, see Quick Start Overview. You may need to consult your hardware documentation for details on enabling UEFI.
You have booted the image to the Enter shell for manual install prompt. For details, see Installing eLxr on a Hardware Device, step 3.

Procedure¶

Identify the disk or media you want to install eLxr to with the lsblk command. In this example, the installation disk designation is sda. You will use this option in the next step.

# lsblk

NAME     MAJ:MIN  RM      SIZE  RO  TYPE  MOUNTPOINTS
loop0      7:0     0    816.3M   1  loop  /usr/lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
                                          /run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
sda        8:0     0        7G   0  disk
sr0       11:0     1      891M   0  rom   /usr/lib/live/mount/medium
                                          /run/live/medium

Set the disk designation in the /usr/share/installer/manifest.yaml file. Note the drive designation from the previous step is set to /dev/sda.
```
# sed -i "s|disk: .*|disk: /dev/sda|g" /usr/share/installer/manifest.yaml
```
Optionally update the /usr/share/installer/manifest.yaml file to set disk parameters and kernel options.
```
# vi /usr/share/installer/manifest.yaml
```

Run tiler to complete the installation.

# tiler install --config /usr/share/installer/manifest.yaml

Restart the system.
```
# shutdown -r now
```

Once the reboot completes, log in to the system using root for the user name and password.

elxr-server login: root
Password:
Linux elxr 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC eLxr
6.12.48-elxr10-1 (2026-02-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux

The programs included with the eLxr Linux system
are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

eLxr Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY,
to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Note

If you installed a desktop environment, the window manager will present a GUI login.

Results¶

Now that your eLxr 26.04 image is running, you can install a package or packages from the eLxr package repository. For details, see Adding and Updating Packages.