By default systemd-networkd-wait-online.service considers a network
connection to be "online" when it has reached the "degraded" state
(see networkctl(1) for the definitions).
Since "degraded" does not ensure there's a routable address, let's
change the connection's requirement to "routable" instead.
This gives a better chance that the network really is online when
network-online.target is reached.
Construct a human readable platform identifier from GRUB's built-in
variables and use it in menu item descriptions.
Only add the menu entries for the additional tools (UEFI shell,
Memtest86+) if the files exist.
Modify baseline's `grub.cfg` to closer match releng.
* Do not manually load modules that will get loaded by invoking a command.
* Explicitly load serial modules.
* Move `insmod all_video` after the font is loaded.
The only changes we make to the default are to enable root login via a
password.
While `PasswordAuthentication yes` is the default, let's set it
explicitly to avoid potential issues in the future.
openssh 9.4p1-2 changed /etc/ssh/sshd_config to add support for
drop-in files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/.
Using drop-in files avoids needing to keep up with changes to the
default /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
Since systemd 245, IPv6PrivacyExtensions can be set not just per
connection, but also globally for all connection with a configuration
file in /etc/systemd/network.conf.d/.
* Use LZMA extreme compression level,
* enable experimental compressed fragments feature to create a smaller image,
* enable experimental data deduplication.
This decreases the baseline profile's `airootfs.erofs` size by about ~16 MiB.
configs/{baseline,releng}/grub/grub.cfg:
Use `console` as grub's `terminal_output`, as with `gfxterm` only a blank screen is shown on some hardware.
Fixes#212
To prevent the file from being accidentally missed when someone copies
the ISO's contents, let's not place it in a directory that starts with a
dot. Since all GRUB related files are in /boot/grub/, put it there too.
Instead of using a more unique UUID for the file name, use
`YYYY-mm-dd-HH-MM-SS-00.uuid` which matches the ISO's modification date
in UTC,i.e. its "UUID". If multiple ISOs would be generated in the exact
same second, the ISO 9660 modification date (i.e. its "UUID") would be
the same, so there would be not way to distinguish between the volumes
anyway. This also makes the file look less suspicious to the casual
glance.
The `grub.cfg` embedded in the GRUB binaries already sets `ARCHISO_HINT`
and `ARCHISO_UUID` in most cases. To avoid performing the same searches
multiple times, use the existing variables.
There are claims that some UEFI allegedly natively support NTFS.
Preload the required GRUB modules to support booting from NTFS on such
systems.
Additionally preload the exFAT and UEF modules, because, why not?
Search for `/.disk/%UUID_SEARCH_FILENAME%.uuid` and pass the UUID of the
volume it's on as `archisodevice`. mkarchiso will replace
`%UUID_SEARCH_FILENAME%` with a hardcoded value generated using
`SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` durring ISO build.
This allows to prepare an UEFI bootable installation medium by simply
copying the directory structure without having to touch `grub.cfg`.
Relying on the volume UUID instead of its LABEL also avoids collisions
of multiple ISOs created in the same month.
Fixes#202
Now that xz 5.4 is out and erofs-utils is built with LZMA support, it is
possible to compress the EROFS image with LZMA for higher compression.
`mkfs.erofs` trows a few warnings about using experimental features, but
they should not be an issue.
Nothing changes for the releng profile, for now at least.
The glibc 2.35-6 package ships with the C.UTF-8 locale included.
This means there is now a UTF-8 locale available by default and en_US.UTF-8, which requires editing /etc/locale.gen and running locale-gen, is not needed anymore.
Implements #175.
* open-vm-tools package, vmtoolsd.service and vmware-vmblock-fuse.service for VMware.
* hyperv package, hv_fcopy_daemon.service, hv_kvp_daemon.service and hv_vss_daemon.service for Hyper-V.
Related to #118.
When booting the ISO, you can observe a message that systemd-gpt-auto-generator has failed:
systemd-gpt-auto-generator[197]: Reading EFI variable /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/LoaderDevicePartUUID-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f.
systemd-gpt-auto-generator[197]: open("/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/LoaderDevicePartUUID-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4f") failed: No such file or directory
systemd-gpt-auto-generator[197]: EFI loader partition unknown, exiting.
systemd-gpt-auto-generator[197]: (The boot loader did not set EFI variable LoaderDevicePartUUID.)
systemd-gpt-auto-generator[197]: Failed to open device: No such device
Seeing as it started to appear relatively recently, it may be a systemd bug.
Since we do not want any GPT partition automounting in the live environment anyway, systemd-gpt-auto-generator can simply be disabled.
Fixes#164.
Now that pacman 6 is around, enable parallel downloads to speed up the installation
process. Added to the baseline configuration to also improve the pipeline.
* virtualbox-guest-utils-nox package and vboxservice.service for VirtualBox.
* qemu-guest-agent package and qemu-guest-agent.service for QEMU & libvirt.
Implements #118.
configs/baseline/bootstrap_packages.x86_64:
Add a packages file for bootstrap images using the baseline profile and add arch-install-scripts and base to it.
