When choosing `systemd-boot` as the bootloader, numerous problems
occurred:
- the kernel and initrd were not copied to the EFI System Partition,
and therefore could not be reached by the bootloader
- the fallback entry used the default initramfs image instead of the
fallback image
`systemd-boot` provides the `kernel-install` utility, which
automatically copies the kernel + initramfs to the EFI partition, and
creates the corresponding bootloader entry.
Unfortunately, `kernel-install` cannot be used here as the module is not
executed in a chroot. As setting up one only for running a single
command would be overkill, this patch re-creates what `kernel-install`
usually does:
- copy the kernel and initramfs to their own subdirectory at the root of
the EFI partition
- create the corresponding entry configuration file
To this end, the `systemd-boot` installation code in the `bootloader`
module has been largely refactored, including removing a few duplicate
LOCs.
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Ferraris <arnaud.ferraris@collabora.com>
- to make it short - it doesn't help much if one try to find and process any
EFI related things in the live system. The better approach is to search in
the chroot.
- use python builtins for mkdir and cp
- replacing some subprocess calls
- Some PEP8 changes
- added myself to the copyright section
On 32-bit UEFI (note that the bitness of the firmware is what matters
here, not the bitness of the distribution), instead of copying
grubx64.efi to bootx64.efi, copy grubia32.efi to bootia32.efi.
Patch by TeHMoroS from SparkyLinux.
CAL-403 #close
The manual partitioning setup was already requiring the user to check
the ESP flag for the EFI System Partition. Now the autopartitioning also
sets it directly (a one-line change). The sgdisk call in the bootloader
module is thus no longer necessary (it was only a workaround because
kpmcore < 2.1.0 did not support FlagEsp), so remove that snippet.
This fixes configurations such as NVME disks where splitting boot_device
into boot_device[-1:] and boot_device[:-1] is not the correct split
(because the partition gets a 2-letter suffix) (reported by demmm on
IRC).
