If the disk parameter "DEFAULT" is set in place of an actual device name,
or no disk is specified for the PARTITIONS parameter, the installer will
follow the logic used in the automatic-partitioning mode, in which it
will either provide a selection dialog for one of several disks if
several are present or automatically select it if there is only one. This
simplifies the creation of fully-automatic installation media for
hardware or VMs with varying disk names.
Suggested by: Egoitz Aurrekoetxea <egoitz@sarenet.es>
MFC after: 3 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Because the ESP mount point (/boot/efi) is in mtree, tar will attempt to
extract a directory at that point post-mount when the system is installed.
Normally, this is fine, since tar can happily set whatever properties it
wants. For FAT32 file systems, however, like the ESP, tar will attempt to
set mtime on the root directory, which FAT does not support, and tar will
interpret this as a fatal error, breaking the install (see
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1516). This issue would
also break scripted installs on bare-metal POWER8, POWER9, and PS3
systems, as well as some ARM systems.
This patch solves the problem in two ways:
- If stdout is a TTY, use the distextract stage instead of tar, as in
interactive installs. distextract solves this problem internally and
provides a nicer UI to boot, but requires a TTY.
- If stdout is not a TTY, use tar but, as a stopgap for 13.0, exclude
boot/efi from tarball extraction and then add it by hand. This is a
hack, and better solutions (as in the libarchive ticket above) will
obsolete it, but it solves the most common case, leaving only
unattended TTY-less installs on a few tier-2 platforms broken.
In addition, fix a bug with fstab generation uncovered once the tar issue
is fixed that umount(8) can depend on the ordering of lines in fstab in a
way that mount(8) does not. The partition editor now writes out fstab in
mount order, making sure umount (run at the end of scripted, but not
interactive, installs) succeeds.
PR: 254395
Reviewed by: gjb, imp
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29380
In particular:
- There is no need to do anything with gpart (the installer does that
for you).
- There is no need to specify the network interface, since we have
an option for defaults.
Instead of whether /boot/efi exists, which it now always does, including
on systems that don't and can't use EFI, use whether /boot/efi is
present in fstab to signal to the installer that it is a valid ESP and
should be configured. This has essentially the same semantics, but allows
/boot/efi to be created unconditionally.
Reviewed by: bdragon, imp
Tested by: bdragon (ppc64)
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29068
Per hier(7), the ESP will be mounted at /boot/efi. On UFS systems,
any existing ESP will be reused and mounted there; otherwise, a new one
will be made. On ZFS systems, space for an ESP is allocated on all disks
in the root pool, but only the partition actually used to boot is set up
and mounted.
This makes future upgrades of the EFI loader easier (upgrade scripts can
just change /boot/efi) and also greatly simplifies the parts of the
installer involved in initialization of the ESP. It also makes the
installer's behavior correspond to the documentation in hier(7).
Reviewed by: imp, tsoome
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28897
Make the installer more useful, by allowing it to create a bootable
installation. Also, enable the menu option for ZFS-on-root.
Like arm64, RISC-V boots by UEFI only, so arm64's partedit
implementation is renamed and shared among the two platforms.
Reviewed by: gjb
MFC after: 5 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28180
If the installer is creating a new ESP, then this directory will not
exist and the subsequent cp will fail silently. This is usually of no
consequence if /efi/freebsd/loader.efi is set up correctly.
Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 5 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28176
Now that sparc64 has been removed, there are no kernels built with
support for the VTOC8 partitioning scheme by default. Remove the option
from the installer, as it is unsupported on all installer images
produced by re@.
Reviewed by: imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27641
Too many version of UEFI firmware (so far only confirmed on amd64)
don't really support efibootmgr selection of boot. That's the most
reliable, when it works, since there's no guesswork. However, many do
not save, unmolested, the variables that efibootmgr sets, so as a
fallback we also install loader.efi as bootXXX.efi (where XXX is
either aa64 or x64) if it doesn't already exist in /efi/boot on the
ESP. The standard only defines this for removable devices, but it's
almost ubiquitously used as a fallback. Many BIOSes implement a drive
selection feature that takes over the efibootmgr protocol, rendinering
it useless (either generally, or for those vendors not on the short
list). bootxxx.efi works around this. However, we don't install it
unconditionally there, as that breaks some popular multi-boot setups.
MFC After: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26428
Repeating the default WARNS here makes it slightly more difficult to
experiment with default WARNS changes, e.g. if we did something absolutely
bananas and introduced a WARNS=7 and wanted to try lifting the default to
that.
Drop most of them; there is one in the blake2 kernel module, but I suspect
it should be dropped -- the default WARNS in the rest of the build doesn't
currently apply to kernel modules, and I haven't put too much thought into
whether it makes sense to make it so.
Prune dead mirrors from the list of mirrors in bsdconfig and bsdinstall.
All these return NXDOMAIN when trying to resolve them.
Reviewed by: emaste
Approved by: emaste
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26535
As of r365829, any given base distribution set will now include the /etc/ssl
symlinks that this rehash would've otherwise installed. This extra step is
no longer required.
MFC after: 1 week
X-MFC-With: r365837
If certctl is installed on the system we're configuring, do a certctl
rehash.
Note that certctl may not be present if the world we've installed was built
either WITHOUT_OPENSSL or WITHOUT_CAROOT. In this scenario, we don't
currently see if the host has a certctl as this may be an indication that
the system *shouldn't* have certs installed into /etc/ssl.
Reviewed by: allanjude, dteske
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24640
- Mention bootconfig target in TARGETS section.
- Document PARTITIONS variable, which is only mentioned in the examples,
but doesn't have its own point.
Submitted by: arrowd@
Reviewed by: bcr
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22927
Includes commentary of when ZFS works well by default (>= 8GB RAM),
and where to go for information on ZFS tuning if required.
Also hoist the options text to the top of script as variables
(will help with future international translations).
Reviewed by: philip, dteske, karels, imp, emaste
Approved by: rgrimes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23224
This resulted in the partitioning step failing if either of the
"Auto (UFS)" or "Manual" options were selected.
Reason: partedit was attempting to open a directory (TMPDIR) read/write,
which resulted in errno(2) 21 - EISDIR - Is a directory.
Reported by: Clay Daniels <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@freqlabs.com>
Approved by: emaste, bcran
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23232
Pass the list of user selected disks from zfsboot to bootconfig so that
the latter doesn't rely on ESP autodetection that apparently fails for
some cases, e.g. memstick installation with nvme (boot) and sata drives.
While here, fix printing of debug messages in bootconfig.
Reviewed by: bcran, imp, tsoome
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21930
installer when installing the system on a ZFS root filesystem.
For arm64, zfs_load="YES" does not add opensolaris.ko as a kld
dependency, so add it explicitly to prevent boot-time failures
out-of-box.
PR: 240478
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate)
Summary:
Now that mpc85xx can boot via ubldr, move ubldr to a separate
filesystem, mounted on /boot/uboot, so that a fresh install can boot correctly.
Reviewed By: nwhitehorn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18709
When using a gmirror, entries in /dev can be removed. So instead of using
kern.disks, get the list of disks from "gpart status -sg" instead.
We assume that any 'efi' partition that can't be mounted as msdosfs should
be used as an ESP. However, the ESP on the CD/DVD can't be mounted read-write
and so was being treated as if unformatted. Try the mount as read-only
instead, to catch cases like this.
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18645
Currently, the installer uses pre-created 800KB FAT12 filesystems that
it dd's onto the ESP partition.
This changeset improves that by having the installer generate a FAT32
filesystem directly onto the ESP using newfs_msdos and then copying
loader.efi into /EFI/freebsd.
For live installs it then runs efibootmgr to add a FreeBSD boot entry
in the BIOS.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17947
