Status

This page states what is proven and what is open. It is the honest summary of README.md section "Known open. Do not claim otherwise" plus Z# status.

Proven

• One real install, end to end, booting from disk with the ISO detached: BIOS + MBR + grub-install --target=i386-pc; btrfs root with compress=zstd, a separate /home, XFCE, GRUB.
• Full pipeline: apps/ → make stage → installer-iso/airootfs/ → customize_airootfs.sh → mkarchiso → boot → 16 questions → kryon-install → disk → boot.
• Test suites green: installer 46/46 as root, 30/30 non-root; wizard test_tzworld and test_parts; zen test_ledger.
• Mirrors: 10 vetted mirrors (5 continents); 5 of 10 unreachable still yields pacman -Sy exit 0; both repos sync cleanly in the booted guest.

Known open

Prepared but not verified — implemented in source, never exercised:

• No [kryon] repository The Cloudflare Worker + R2 bucket is implemented but not deployed. No account, subdomain or hostname exists. linux-kryon is deliberately not installable — selecting it fails with "target not found" until someone deploys.
• UEFI never tested UEFI paths exist in the code; only BIOS/MBR was proven.
• Secure Boot refused Refused unless KRYON_SECUREBOOT=allow overrides it; that override has never been executed.
• Graphical installer never executed The GTK wizard (10 pages) was built and staged but never run end to end; the one complete install used the TUI.
• LUKS untested LUKS is offered by the installer but never exercised.
• Tuned kernel not applied The live ISO ships Arch's stock linux kernel and trimmed firmware; the tuned configuration is not applied.

GUI wizard: never exercised

The graphical installer has been written but never executed end to end. The 10-page flow (Welcome, What you need, Storage, Desktop, Location, Time zone, Users and passwords, Packages, Review, Installation complete) has not been shown on a real display.

Hardware: built only, not tested

Hardware-specific paths in the installer were written but not exercised against real machines. The proven machine is the test box that booted from disk.

Consoles and fonts

The console font / keyboard layout on the live ISO reflects Arch defaults; anything beyond that has not been verified. The installation transcript in docs/first-install.md shows the one proven boot.

Z# status

Compiler is not finished: hir, mir and backend are stubs; 0 of 17 safety properties observed; zsc version is a build setting, not a measurement. mod/trait/impl do not parse, multi-line brackets regressed, no REPL, zpm not implemented. Conformance: 162 test files.

How to verify a change

make check — build prerequisites and unit tests; kryon-sync check-packages — sanity check the built packages; make stage — build the ISO. The ISO is the artifact that actually boots.