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From: Konstantin Kulikov <k.kulikov2@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 19:23:14 +0300
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Subject: Re: Install on single partition and without a bootloader
To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>
Cc: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
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> Would
>
>   BOOTLOADER=""
>
> or
>
>   Bootloader=flase
>
> or else be for not installing a bootloader?

It's BOOTLOADER=none
https://git.alpinelinux.org/alpine-conf/tree/setup-disk.in#n697


> So let's assume I would have /dev/sda1 ext4 free for Alpine's /
> including /boot. /dev/sda2 would provide a Linux swap and I don't want
> to install a bootloader at all.
>
> How can I achieve this by using the setup-scripts?

I'd say it's easier to install manually using apk like this:
apk add --root /mnt --initdb --allow-untrusted --repository
https://mirror.yandex.ru/mirrors/alpine/edge/main alpine-base

Most distros ship apk-tools in their repos so you don't need to do it
from alpine.
This skips one important thing however - populating
/etc/runlevels/{sysinit,boot,shutdown}.
For bubblewrap/unshare/chroot purposes you don't need it.
But if you do, you can fill it manually from any working alpine installation.