Currently, the serial console is hardcoded to ttyS0 in the bootloader
element. This is a challenge for users that want to build images for
some baremetal servers. Supermicro servers, for example, use ttyS1 for
the serial over lan interface.
This patch adds a new environment variable DIB_BOOTLOADER_SERIAL_CONSOLE
that can be set to override the default.
Change-Id: Ie8173be8690ac0b7164ce9e5b66d3c1c18f844d6
The grub.cfg has two variables [1]
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX : used on all boots
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT : additionally used on all "normal" boots
The problem with I2298675dda1f699c572b3423e7274bc8bd7c1c9d is that it
appened the values in DIB_BOOTLOADER_DEFAULT_CMDLINE to both of these,
resulting in duplicated arguments. I don't think we considered that
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT actually already appends to the
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX values.
Make DIB_BOOTLOADER_DEFAULT_CMDLINE only append itself to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. That seems to line up sensibly with the
name of the variable.
Documentation is enhanced around this, and a releasenote added.
[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup
Change-Id: I76b5442a9090c19a6540ed2d4ab324546f241ebf
Closes: #1791736
When building the image on a non-efi environment, it generates
linux16/initrd16 entries. But to boot from UEFI they need to have
linuxefi/initrdefi entries.
Use sed to replace those entries, in case we have an EFI image.
Change-Id: I47c96450e10f34b91bcc32888532bd7ab87cf316
Without this change DIB appends a second command line entry to the GRUB
config. This causes the original command line entry to be ignored
when Linux is booted.
The expected behaviour is that DIB appends to the existing entry as
it does for Ubuntu and SUSE.
Following discussion on the review, this also removes the distro specific
switch statement, as update-grub just calls grub-mkconfig, meaning that
there was nothing distro specific in the first place.
Change-Id: I2298675dda1f699c572b3423e7274bc8bd7c1c9d
Closes-Bug: #1771366
Install hwe kernel for ubuntu-minimal. As noted this is currently
Xenial specific; we need this for initial bring-up so let's tackle
future releases as things progress.
Ensure we use ttyAMA0 for arm64 console too.
Change-Id: Ic607cf8369666dc24929aff6f2ef8a72e7980599
In the prior change we added block-device-[mbr|gpt|efi] elements to
create appropriate disk-layouts.
This adds an environment flag to each so the bootloader can install
the right thing. The EFI install path is updated to work with this
(this part a copy of I572937945adbb5adaa5cb09200752e323c2c9531)
We do some basic sanity checking in the block-device elements;
e.g. mbr is not suitable for aarch64, and efi is not suitable for
power.
This updates the bootloader to install EFI where appropriate
Co-Authored-By: Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Ib80acbfd9a12efd976c3fa15a5d1081eb0799305
Avoid incorrect use of [ with =~ matching
I guess this doesn't trip "-e" because it's in an if-conditional. I'm
looking at making bashate detect this; maybe we can run bashate over
things we know are scripts
Change-Id: Ia3fe2b978fae5bdaadbb1789058180d3ad950d00
On Power systems console should be added the kernel command line
in the following order: 'console=tty0 console=hvc0'.
The first one is the graphical console. The last one is the serial
console. The kernel enables all the consoles pointed through the
kernel command line. However, only the last one will receive
input/output during kernel boot. All the other consoles will be
enabled after the boot.
Change-Id: I0069f608e0ab104d3778954e033fb82ed5ea7693
In order to support {CentOS,RHEL}7 for building cloud images we need to
handle the differences in grub packaging from Ubuntu. We also need to
populate the defualt location for cloud images for CentOS builds.
Change-Id: Ie0d82ff21a42b08c4cb94b7a5635f80bfabf684e
Using the newly exposed variables from the prior change, install the
ppc bootloader to the boot partition, not the underlying loopback
device.
Change-Id: I0918e8df8797d6dbabf7af618989ab7f79ee9580
Currently we only export "image-block-device" which is the loopback
device (/dev/loopX) for the underlying image. This is the device we
install grub to (from inside the chroot ...)
This is ok for x86, but is insufficient for some platforms like PPC
which have a separate boot partition. They do not want to install to
the loop device, but do things like dd special ELF files into special
boot partitions.
The first problem seems to be that in level1/partitioning.py we have a
whole bunch of different paths that either call partprobe on the loop
device, or kpartx. We have _all_part_devices_exist() that gates the
kpartx for unknown reasons. We have detach_loopback() that does not
seem to remove losetup created devices. I don't think this does
cleanup if it uses kpartx correctly. It is extremley unclear what's
going to be mapped where.
This moves to us *only* using kpartx to map the partitions of the loop
device. We will *not* call partprobe and create the /dev/loopXpN
devices and will only have the devicemapper nodes kpartx creates.
This seems to be best. Cleanup happens inside partitioning.py.
practice. Deeper thinking about this, and more cleanup of the
variables will be welcome.
This adds "image-block-devices" (note the extra "s") which exports all
the block devices with name and path. This is in a string format that
can be eval'd to an array (you can't export arrays).
This is then used in a follow-on
(I0918e8df8797d6dbabf7af618989ab7f79ee9580) to pick the right
partition on PPC.
Change-Id: If8e33106b4104da2d56d7941ce96ffcb014907bc
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS reached its regular End of Life on April 28, 2017.
Depends-On: I5e145095a10db112bb27516bfe652d2cdc052a61
Change-Id: I64af4c5183d77a75dcd062895d19b0a1330c8da8
Instead, either use the bash built-in of type to ensure it exists. Since
which is an external dep, things can fail oddly in a constrained
environment.
Also add a dib-lint test for this.
Change-Id: I645029f5b5bfe1198c89ce10fd3246be8636e8af
Signed-off-by: Jesse Keating <omgjlk@us.ibm.com>
Depending on the types of deployment (security, nfv...) some extra
kernel flags are needed on the images. This change exposes the
DIB_BOOTLOADER_DEFAULT_CMDLINE parameter, defaulting to the
existing 'nofb nomodeset vga=normal', that will allow to modify
these boot params.
Change-Id: I67d191fa5ca44a57f776cb9739a02dd71212969c
Closes-Bug: #1668890
During the creation of a disk image (e.g. for a VM), there is the need
to create, setup, configure and afterwards detach some kind of storage
where the newly installed OS can be copied to or directly installed
in.
This patch implements partitioning handling.
Change-Id: I0ca6a4ae3a2684d473b44e5f332ee4225ee30f8c
Signed-off-by: Andreas Florath <andreas@florath.net>
Currently we have all our elements and library files in a top-level
directory and install them into
<root>/share/diskimage-builder/[elements|lib] (where root is either /
or the root of a virtualenv).
The problem with this is that editable/development installs (pip -e)
do *not* install data_files. Thus we have no canonical location to
look for elements -- leading to the various odd things we do such as a
whole bunch of guessing at the top of disk-image-create and having a
special test-loader in tests/test_elements.py so we can run python
unit tests on those elements that have it.
data_files is really the wrong thing to use for what are essentially
assets of the program. data_files install works well for things like
config-files, init.d files or dropping documentation files.
By moving the elements under the diskimage_builder package, we always
know where they are relative to where we import from. In fact,
pkg_resources has an api for this which we wrap in the new
diskimage_builder/paths.py helper [1].
We use this helper to find the correct path in the couple of places we
need to find the base-elements dir, and for the paths to import the
library shell functions.
Elements such as svc-map and pkg-map include python unit-tests, which
we do not need tests/test_elements.py to special-case load any more.
They just get found automatically by the normal subunit loader.
I have a follow-on change (I69ca3d26fede0506a6353c077c69f735c8d84d28)
to move disk-image-create to a regular python entry-point.
Unfortunately, this has to move to work with setuptools. You'd think
a symlink under diskimage_builder/[elements|lib] would work, but it
doesn't.
[1] this API handles stuff like getting files out of .zip archive
modules, which we don't do. Essentially for us it's returning
__file__.
Change-Id: I5e3e3c97f385b1a4ff2031a161a55b231895df5b
