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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
bootloader
Installs grub[2] on boot partition on the system. In
case GRUB2 is not available in the system, a fallback to Extlinux will
happen. It's also possible to enforce the use of Extlinux by exporting a
DIB_EXTLINUX variable to the environment.
Arguments
DIB_GRUB_TIMEOUTsets thegrubmenu timeout. It defaults to 5 seconds. Set this to 0 (no timeout) for fast boot times.DIB_BOOTLOADER_DEFAULT_CMDLINEsets the CMDLINE parameters that are appended to the grub.cfg configuration. It defaults to 'nofb nomodeset vga=normal'