bootonce feature is temporary, one time boot, activated by
"bectl activate -t BE", "bectl activate -T BE" will reset the bootonce flag.
By default, the bootonce setting is reset on attempt to boot and the next
boot will use previously active BE.
By setting zfs_bootonce_activate="YES" in rc.conf, the bootonce BE will
be set permanently active.
bootonce dataset name is recorded in boot pool labels, bootenv area.
in case of nextboot, the nextboot_enable boolean variable is recorded in
freebsd:nvstore nvlist, also stored in boot pool label bootenv area.
On boot, the loader will process /boot/nextboot.conf if nextboot_enable
is "YES", and will set nextboot_enable to "NO", preventing /boot/nextboot.conf
processing on next boot.
bootonce and nextboot features are usable in both UEFI and BIOS boot.
To use bootonce/nextboot features, the boot loader needs to be updated on disk;
if loader.efi is stored on ESP, then ESP needs to be updated and
for BIOS boot, stage2 (zfsboot or gptzfsboot) needs to be updated
(gpart or other tools).
At this time, only lua loader is updated.
Sponsored by: Netflix, Klara Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25512
Correct a small mistake in r363060's backaout of r362998 by reverse-applying
r362998 by hand to loader.conf.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25606
prison0's hostuuid will get set by the hostid rc script, either after
generating it and saving it to /etc/hostid or by simply reading /etc/hostid.
Some things (e.g. arbitrary MAC address generation) may use the hostuuid as
a factor in early boot, so providing a way to read /etc/hostid (if it's
available) and using it before userland starts up is desirable. The code is
written such that the preload doesn't *have* to be /etc/hostid, thus not
assuming that there will be newline at the end of the buffer or even the
exact shape of the newline. White trailing whitespace/non-printables
trimmed, the result will be validated as a valid uuid before it's used for
early boot purposes.
The preload can be turned off with hostuuid_load="NO" in /boot/loader.conf,
just as other preloads; it's worth noting that this is a 37-byte file, the
overhead is believed to be generally minimal.
It doesn't seem necessary at this time to be concerned with kern.hostid.
One does wonder if we should consider validating hostuuids coming in
via jail_set(2); some bits seem to care about uuid form and we bother
validating format of smbios-provided uuid and in-fact whatever uuid comes
from /etc/hostid.
Reviewed by: karels, delphij, jamie
MFC after: 1 week (don't preload by default, probably)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24288
As documented in loader.conf(5), kernels_autodetect="YES" will cause the
Lua scripts to effectively scan /boot for directories with a "kernel" file
inside, to be listed in the loader menu.
Approved by: re (kib)
This is a step in the process of easing migration into the new world order
of DRM drivers. Strongly encourage users towards loading DRM modules via
rc.conf(5) instead of loader.conf(5) by failing the load from loader(8).
Users so inclined may wipe out the blacklist via module_blacklist="" in
loader.conf(5), and it is expected that these modules will eventually be
removed from the blacklist. They may still be loaded as dependencies of
other modules or explicitly via the loader prompt, but this should not be a
major problem.
Approved by: re (rgrimes)
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16914
/etc/security/audit_event to provide a list of audit event-number <->
name mappings. However, this occurs too late for anonymous tracing.
With this change, adding 'audit_event_load="YES"' to /boot/loader.conf
will cause the boot loader to preload the file, and then the kernel
audit code will parse it to register an initial set of audit event-number
<-> name mappings. Those mappings can later be updated by auditd(8) if
the configuration file changes.
Reviewed by: gnn, asomers, markj, allanjude
Discussed with: jhb
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16589
Effectively disabling the mode changing bits in the loader. No matter which
way we go with it, it seems to be wrong- either the firmware doesn't change
the resolution and reports the resolution we requested, or the firmware
changes the resolution and doesn't report the resolution we requested. It
some cases, it does the right thing, but the bad cases outweight those.
Interested individuals can still set efi_max_resolution to 1080p or whatnot
in loader.conf(5) to restore the new behavior, but the new behavior does not
work out well for many cases.
Discussed with: imp
Default the max resolution to 1080p, we'll accept Width x Height
specifications along with the following presets:
- 480p
- 720p
- 1080p
- 2160p or 4k
- 5k
PR: 224825
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14801
The former is fairly vague; these are FDT overlays to be applied to the
running system, so /boot/dtb is a sensible location to put it without
cluttering up /boot/dtb even further if desired.
Remove almost all of the _load=XXX options (kept only those relevant
to splash screens, since there were other settings).
Remove the excessively cutesy comment blocks.
Remove excessive comments and replace with similar content
Remove gratuitous blank lines (while leaving some)
We have too many modules to list them all here. There's no purpose in
doing so and it's a giant hassle to maintain. In addition the extra
~500 lines slow this down on small platforms. It slowed it down
so much small platforms forked, which caused other issues...
This is a compromise between those two extremes.
We really only need one loader.conf. The other loader.conf was created
because the current one took forever to parse in FORTH. That will be
fixed in the next commit.
