This directory contains dynamic templates used for dynamic configuration building and other such things. They are written in http://jinja.pocoo.org/[Jinja2^]. If you haven't used Jinja2 before, the http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/[templating documentation^] will prove to be very useful.
This allows you to customize low-level behaviour of BDisk without modifying the source.
===== BIOS/
The `isolinux.cfg.arch.j2` template controls boot options for the single-arch versions of BDisk. In other words if you only build an i686 or only an x86_64 version, this is the template that would be used for BIOS boot mode.
The `isolinux.cfg.multi.j2` is used for multi-arch. It manages booting for both i686 and x86_64 versions.
These files will let you change the behaviour of booting in BIOS systems. The menu colour, the menu entries, the menu default, etc.
===== EFI/
The files in here are https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/systemd-boot/[systemd-boot^] configurations. The distributed defaults are:
`base.conf.j2`, which controls the "main"/default entry.
`loader.conf.j2`, the meta configuration file which tells the loader which entry to load by default and which entries to include.
`ram.conf.j2` which allows BDisk to run entirely from RAM.
`uefi1.conf.j2` which provides a UEFI shell (for older UEFI systems).
`uefi2.conf.j2` which provides a UEFI shell (for newer UEFI systems).
===== GPG.j2
This file contains default parameters for the https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Unattended-GPG-key-generation.html[GPG key generation], if we need to automatically generate a key.
===== iPXE/
This directory holds templates for iPXE/mini builds.
The `BIOS/` directory is similar to <<bios, BIOS/>> mentioned above, but it only needs one configuration file and is a much more minimal design (since its entire purpose is to chainload to the iPXE loader).
`EMBED.j2` is the iPXE http://ipxe.org/scripting[embedded script^] (http://ipxe.org/embed[more info^]). This is what chainloads the remote resources (kernel, intird, squashed filesystem images, and so forth).
The `patches/` directory largely control branding of the mini ISO. They are in https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Unified-Format.html[unified diff^] (or "patch") format.
This directory contains *templated* overlays. These are intended to be templated by the user. See <<overlay, the overlay section>> for more information on how to use this. Remember to suffix your template files with the `.j2` extension.
===== pre-build.d/
This directory contains *templated* overlays. These are intended to not be managed by the user, as they handle configuration necessary for building an ISO. See <<pre_build_d, the pre-build.d section>> for more information on this.
This template specifies a VERSION_INFO.txt file placed in various locations throughout the builds to help identify which version, build, etc. the ISO is.
