> <@bread_crumb:halogen.city> What I did was the above, I partitioned the USB as follows:
> 
> > parted --script /dev/sda mklabel gpt
> > parted --script --align=optimal /dev/sda mkpart ESP fat32 1MiB 551MiB
> > parted --script --align=optimal /dev/sda mkpart NAME ext4 552 MiB 100%
> > parted --script /dev/sda set 1 boot on
> > mkfs.vfat -n ASAHI /dev/sda1
> > mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
> 
> Then I git cloned the alarm-builder and set ROOT\_UUID and EFI\_UUID to the USB UUIDs (`lsblk -o name,uuid,fstype,mountpoint` gives info) in `build.sh`. I also removed building asahi-desktop and uefi-minimal to save time. Also this should be done on an archo distro since it supports the commands such as pacstrap in the build.sh file. I did it from an asahi desktop installation.
> 
> Then I mounted sda1 onto mnt and copied the EFI folder (under /esp/ in the images/asahi-base directory of the asahi-alarm-builder directory) onto sda1. After this I unmounted sda1 and replaced it with sda2 on mnt, mounted the root.img locally onto a directory in Desktop to make sure I'm using the proper build data and copied those contents onto sda2.
> 
> After setting up as such it booted but now I'm looking why it's throwing me a user name / password screen.

I tried doing this with plasma, doesn't work - when booted plasma login interface shows up but no user is available. I suppose it could be fixed by manually adding user data from shell but I'm definitely not sure how to do that right now.