Similarly to "setup" vs. "set up", "fallback" is a noun, and "fall back"
is the verb. (This is pretty clear when we construct a sentence in the
present continous: "we are falling back" not "we are fallbacking").
I happen to have a machine where /boot is not a separate mountpoint,
but rather just a directory under /. After upgrade to recent Fedora,
I found out that grub2 can't find any new kernels.
This happens because loadentry script generates kernel and initrd file
paths relative to /boot, while grub2 expects path to be relative to the
root of filesystem on which they are residing.
This commit fixes this issue by using stat's %m to find the mount point
of a partition holding the images, and using it as a prefix to be
removed from ENTRY_DIR_ABS.
Note that %m for stat requires coreutils 8.6, released in Oct 2010.
Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
As in 2a5fcfae02
and in 3e67e5c992
using /usr/bin/env allows bash to be looked up in PATH
rather than being hard-coded.
As with the previous changes the same arguments apply
- distributions have scripts to rewrite shebangs on installation and
they know what locations to rely on.
- For tests/compilation we should rather rely on the user to have setup
there PATH correctly.
In particular this makes testing from git easier on NixOS where do not provide
/bin/bash to improve compose-ability.
When booting with Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-30-20190411.n.0.iso,
/proc/cmdline is empty (libvirt, qemu host with bios, not sure if that
matters), after installation to disk, anaconda would "crash" in kernel-core
%posttrans, after calling kernel-install, because dracut would fail
with
> Could not determine the kernel command line parameters.
> Please specify the kernel command line in /etc/kernel/cmdline!
I guess it's legitimate, even if unusual, to have no cmdline parameters.
Two changes are done in this patch:
1. do not fail if the cmdline is empty.
2. if /usr/lib/kernel/cmdline or /etc/kernel/cmdline are present, but
empty, ignore /proc/cmdline. If there's explicit configuration to
have empty cmdline, don't ignore it.
The same change was done in dracut:
https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/561.
"BOOT" is misleading, because it sounds like this refers to /boot or $BOOT,
when in fact it refers to some subdirectory. Those variable names are purely
interal, so we can change them. $BOOT_DIR_ABS was used in NEWS, but it should
not be (because it is an internal detail), so the old NEWS entry is reworded to
use "entry directory".
This makes it easier to see what is going on. Documentation for
--verbose and --help is added to the man page. Our plugins are updated
to also log a bit.
* kernel-install: fix initrd when called as installkernel
Running make install from the kernel runs e.g.:
installkernel 4.20.5 arch/x86/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot"
Since 0912c0b80e this would
cal 90-loaderentry.install with those arguments:
add 4.20.5 /boot/... arch/x86/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot"
The two last arguments would then be handled as the initrd files.
As System.map exists in current directory but not in /boot/...
it would get copied there, and used as initrd intead of the initrd
which has been generated by dracut.
With this change, nothing changes when kernel-install is called
directly, but when it's called as installkernel, we now pass
thos arguments to 90-loaderentry.install:
add 4.20.5 /boot/... arch/x86/boot/bzImage initrd
initrd is thus detected as the file to use for the initrd, and as it
exists, nothing is copied over and the initrd line generated is
consistent with what one would expect
* kernel-install: fix dracut initrd detection when called directly
This brings back the systemd 240 behaviour when called directly too
* kernel-install: unify initrd fallback
* kernel-install: move initrd fallback handling to 90-loaderentry.install
* kernel-install: move initrd fallback just before creating loader entry
Instead of having just a single INITRD field, add support for all
additional parameters being INITRD fields in order.
Signed-off-by: Mike Auty <mike.auty@gmail.com>
The current support in kernel-install for initrd images doesn't copy
over the initrd file or allow a means for it to be specified (it
requires a specific filename in a particular directory).
This patchset adds support for (optionally) providing the name of
initial ramdisk file to copied over and used by kernel-install.
This makes two changes:
1. When called for "remove" any drop-ins with "+" suffix are removed
too, so that the logic works for entries with boot counting enabled
too and we don't lose track of configuration snippets created that
way.
2. When called for "add" we optionally generate a "+" suffix, based on
the data in /etc/kernel/tries if it exists.
This basically means after "echo 5 > /etc/kernel/tries" any installed
kernels will automatically set up for 5 boot tries before older
kernels will be tried.
The script shouldn't rely on a previous script exiting with a status code
that prevents it to be executed. Instead, should check if the destination
directory for the BLS kernel image exists and exit otherwise.
Some .install plugins does not require that machine ID is set such as
20-grubby.install for Fedora and 50-depmod.install.
To support such plugins to run without valid machine-id, this commit
makes the following change:
* if /etc/machine-id is missing or empty, create temporary directory
and set its path to BOOT_DIR_ABS,
* run the .install helpers with KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID environment
variable that'd be empty if /etc/machine-id is missing or empty.
This may be useful for installing kernel for e.g. stateless systems
which initialize machine-id while booting the systems.
A recent commit (2f3a215) changed the parsing of /proc/cmdline to use a
shell array. Unfortunately, this introduced a bug: "read -ar line"
populates the shell variable $r, not $line. This breaks installation of
new loader entries:
# kernel-install add 3.17.1-304.fc21.x86_64 \
/boot/vmlinuz-3.17.1-304.fc21.x86_64
Could not determine the kernel command line parameters.
Please specify the kernel command line in /etc/kernel/cmdline!
This commit alters the read command to correctly populate the $line
array instead.
If /etc/kernel/cmdline is missing or empty, we read /proc/cmdline and
want to filter out the initrd line. Due to a bug, the whole contents was
filtered out.
The file should have been in /usr/lib/ in the first place, since it
describes the OS container in /usr (and not the configuration in /etc),
hence, let's support os-release files in /usr/lib as fallback if no
version in /etc exists, following the usual override logic.
A prior commit already enabled tmpfiles to create /etc/os-release as a
symlink to /usr/lib/os-release should it be missing, thus providing nice
compatibility with applications only checking in /etc.
While it's probably a good idea if all apps check both locations via a
fallback logic, it is only necessary in the early boot process, as long
as the /etc/os-release symlink has not been restored, in case we boot
with an empty /etc.
Do the depmod in the kernel-install hooks, so hooks can produce/install
kernel modules and be part of the depmod.
Also move the basic boot loader entry creation and removal to a
plugin script.
If PRETTY_NAME is not defined in /etc/os-release, fallback to
PRETTY_NAME="Linux $KERNEL_VERSION".
Add documentation for everything in the man page.
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek