Evan Broder [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:13:29 +0000 (12:13 +0000)]
Add configure option to enable gfxpayload=keep dynamically
Set GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep unless it's known to be unsupported on
the current hardware. See
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/packageselection-foundations-n-grub2-boot-framebuffer.
Author: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2019-05-25
Steve Langasek [Tue, 30 Oct 2018 22:04:16 +0000 (15:04 -0700)]
If we don't have writable grubenv and we're on EFI, always show the menu
If we don't have writable grubenv, recordfail doesn't work, which means our
quickboot behavior - with a timeout of 0 - leaves the user without a
reliable way to access the boot menu if they're on UEFI, because unlike
BIOS, UEFI does not support checking the state of modifier keys (i.e.
holding down shift at boot is not detectable).
Handle this corner case by always using a non-zero timeout on EFI when
save_env doesn't work.
Reuse GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT to avoid introducing another variable.
Signed-off-by: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1800722
Last-Update: 2019-06-24
Colin Watson [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:13:28 +0000 (12:13 +0000)]
Add configure option to bypass boot menu if possible
If other operating systems are installed, then automatically unhide the
menu. Otherwise, if GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is 0, then use keystatus if
available to check whether Shift is pressed. If it is, show the menu,
otherwise boot immediately. If keystatus is not available, then fall
back to a short delay interruptible with Escape.
This may or may not remain Ubuntu-specific, although it's not obviously
wanted upstream. It implements a requirement of
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/KarmicBootExperienceDesignSpec#Bootloader.
If the previous boot failed (defined as failing to get to the end of one
of the normal runlevels), then show the boot menu regardless.
Author: Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>
Author: Robie Basak <robie.basak@ubuntu.com>
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2015-09-04
Colin Watson [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:13:27 +0000 (12:13 +0000)]
Adjust efi_distributor for some distributions
This is not a very good approach, and certainly not sanely upstreamable;
we probably need to split GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR into a couple of different
variables.
Add configure option to reduce visual clutter at boot time
If this option is enabled, then do all of the following:
Don't display introductory message about line editing unless we're
actually offering a shell prompt. (This is believed to be a workaround
for a different bug. We'll go with this for now, but will drop this in
favour of a better fix upstream if somebody figures out what that is.)
Don't clear the screen just before booting if we never drew the menu in
the first place.
Remove verbose messages printed before reading configuration. In some
ways this is awkward because it makes debugging harder, but it's a
requirement for a smooth-looking boot process; we may be able to do
better in future. Upstream doesn't want this, though.
Disable the cursor as well, for similar reasons of tidiness.
Suppress kernel/initrd progress messages, except in recovery mode.
Suppress "GRUB loading" message unless Shift is held down. Upstream
doesn't want this, as it makes debugging harder. Ubuntu wants it to
provide a cleaner boot experience.
Colin Watson [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:13:06 +0000 (12:13 +0000)]
"single" -> "recovery" when friendly-recovery is installed
If configured with --enable-ubuntu-recovery, also set nomodeset for
recovery mode, and disable 'set gfxpayload=keep' even if the system
normally supports it. See
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-xorg-tools-and-processes.
Author: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com>
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2013-12-25
Colin Watson [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:13:05 +0000 (12:13 +0000)]
Fall back to non-EFI if booted using EFI but -efi is missing
It may be possible, particularly in recovery situations, to be booted
using EFI on x86 when only the i386-pc target is installed, or on ARM
when only the arm-uboot target is installed. There's nothing actually
stopping us installing i386-pc or arm-uboot from an EFI environment, and
it's better than returning a confusing error.
Author: Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2019-05-24
Colin Watson [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:13:01 +0000 (12:13 +0000)]
Restore grub-mkdevicemap
This is kind of a mess, requiring lots of OS-specific code to iterate
over all possible devices. However, we use it in a number of scripts to
discover devices and reimplementing those in terms of something else
would be very complicated.
Author: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov@canonical.com>
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2021-09-24
Colin Watson [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:13:00 +0000 (12:13 +0000)]
Handle filesystems loop-mounted on file images
Improve prepare_grub_to_access_device to emit appropriate commands for
such filesystems, and ignore them in Linux grub.d scripts.
This is needed for Ubuntu's Wubi installation method.
This patch isn't inherently Debian/Ubuntu-specific. losetup and
/proc/mounts are Linux-specific, though, so we might need to refine this
before sending it upstream. The changes to the Linux grub.d scripts
might be better handled by integrating 10_lupin properly instead.
Colin Watson [Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:12:57 +0000 (12:12 +0000)]
Disable gfxpayload=keep by default
Setting gfxpayload=keep has been known to cause efifb to be
inappropriately enabled. In any case, with the current Linux kernel the
result of this option is that early kernelspace will be unable to print
anything to the console, so (for example) if boot fails and you end up
dumped to an initramfs prompt, you won't be able to see anything on the
screen. As such it shouldn't be enabled by default in Debian, no matter
what kernel options are enabled.
gfxpayload=keep is a good idea but rather ahead of its time ...
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/567245
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2013-12-25
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