By default all file system modules are added to the GRUB coreboot
payload `default_payload.elf`. This makes the image quite big,
especially as often not all modules are needed.
Introduce the variable `FS_PAYLOAD_MODULES`, which can be used to
explicitly set file systems modules to be added.
$ make default_payload.elf
test -f default_payload.elf && rm default_payload.elf || true
pkgdatadir=. ./grub-mkstandalone --grub-mkimage=./grub-mkimage -O i386-coreboot -o default_payload.elf --modules='ahci pata ehci uhci ohci usb_keyboard usbms part_msdos ext2 fat at_keyboard part_gpt usbserial_usbdebug cbfs' --install-modules='ls linux search configfile normal cbtime cbls memrw iorw minicmd lsmmap lspci halt reboot hexdump pcidump regexp setpci lsacpi chain test serial multiboot cbmemc linux16 gzio echo help syslinuxcfg xnu affs afs bfs btrfs cbfs cpio cpio_be exfat ext2 f2fs fat hfs hfsplus iso9660 jfs minix minix2 minix2_be minix3 minix3_be minix_be newc nilfs2 ntfs odc procfs reiserfs romfs sfs squash4 tar udf ufs1 ufs1_be ufs2 xfs zfs password_pbkdf2 ' --fonts= --themes= --locales= -d grub-core/ /boot/grub/grub.cfg=./coreboot.cfg
$ ls -l default_payload.elf
-rw-rw---- 1 joey joey 1199568 Mar 6 13:58 default_payload.elf
$ make default_payload.elf FS_PAYLOAD_MODULES="" # ext2 already in `--modules`
test -f default_payload.elf && rm default_payload.elf || true
pkgdatadir=. ./grub-mkstandalone --grub-mkimage=./grub-mkimage -O i386-coreboot -o default_payload.elf --modules='ahci pata ehci uhci ohci usb_keyboard usbms part_msdos ext2 fat at_keyboard part_gpt usbserial_usbdebug cbfs' --install-modules='ls linux search configfile normal cbtime cbls memrw iorw minicmd lsmmap lspci halt reboot hexdump pcidump regexp setpci lsacpi chain test serial multiboot cbmemc linux16 gzio echo help syslinuxcfg xnu password_pbkdf2 ' --fonts= --themes= --locales= -d grub-core/ /boot/grub/grub.cfg=./coreboot.cfg
$ ls -l default_payload.elf
-rw-rw---- 1 joey joey 832976 Mar 7 12:13 default_payload.elf
So, the resulting payload size is around 370 kB smaller. (Adding it to
the CBFS, it will be compressed, so the effective size difference will
be smaller.)
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Some terminals, like `grub-core/term/at_keyboard.c`, return `-1` in case
they are not ready yet.
if (! KEYBOARD_ISREADY (grub_inb (KEYBOARD_REG_STATUS)))
return -1;
Currently, that is treated as a key press, and the menu time-out is
cancelled/cleared. This is unwanted, as the boot is stopped and the user
manually has to select a menu entry. Therefore, adapt the condition to
require the key value also to be greater than 0.
`GRUB_TERM_NO_KEY` is defined as 0, so the condition could be collapsed
to greater or equal than (≥) 0, but the compiler will probably do that
for us anyway, so keep the cases separate for clarity.
This is tested with coreboot, the GRUB default payload, and the
configuration file `grub.cfg` below.
For GRUB:
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-platform=coreboot
$ make -j`nproc`
$ make default_payload.elf
For coreboot:
$ more grub.cfg
serial --unit 0 --speed 115200
set timeout=5
menuentry 'halt' {
halt
}
$ build/cbfstool build/coreboot.rom add-payload \
-f /dev/shm/grub/default_payload.elf -n fallback/payload -c lzma
$ build/cbfstool build/coreboot.rom add -f grub.cfg -n etc/grub.cfg -t raw
$ qemu-system-x86_64 --version
QEMU emulator version 3.1.0 (Debian 1:3.1+dfsg-2+b1)
Copyright (c) 2003-2018 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc -bios build/coreboot.rom -serial stdio -nic none
Currently, the time-out is cancelled/cleared. With the commit, it is not.
With a small GRUB payload, this the problem is also reproducible on the
ASRock E350M1.
Link: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2019-01/msg00037.html
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
On a UEFI system, were no boot entry *grub* is present, currently,
`grub-install` fails with an error.
$ efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0006,0003,0004,0005
Boot0001 Diskette Drive
Boot0003* USB Storage Device
Boot0004* CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive
Boot0005 Onboard NIC
Boot0006* WDC WD2500AAKX-75U6AA0
$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Unknown error 22020.
The error code is always different, and the error message (incorrectly)
points to efibootmgr.
But, the error is in GRUB’s function
`grub_install_remove_efi_entries_by_distributor()`, where the variable
`rc` for the return value, is uninitialized and never set, when no boot
entry for the distributor is found.
The content of that uninitialized variable is then returned as the error
code of efibootmgr.
Set the variable to 0, so that success is returned, when no entry needs
to be deleted.
Tested on Dell OptiPlex 7010 with firmware A28.
$ sudo ./grub-install /dev/sda
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
[1]: https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr/issues/100
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format.
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 07:27:35 +0200
Currently, the GRUB payload for coreboot does not detect the Western
Digital hard disk WDC WD20EARS-60M AB51 connected to the ASRock E350M1,
as that takes over ten seconds to spin up.
```
disk/ahci.c:533: port 0, err: 0
disk/ahci.c:539: port 0, err: 0
disk/ahci.c:543: port 0, err: 0
disk/ahci.c:549: port 0, offset: 120, tfd:80, CMD: 6016
disk/ahci.c:552: port 0, err: 0
disk/ahci.c:563: port 0, offset: 120, tfd:80, CMD: 6016
disk/ahci.c:566: port: 0, err: 0
disk/ahci.c:593: port 0 is busy
disk/ahci.c:621: cleaning up failed devs
```
GRUB detects the drive, when either unloading the module *ahci*, and
then loading it again, or when doing a warm reset.
As the ten second time-out is too short, increase it to 32 seconds,
used by SeaBIOS. which detects the drive successfully.
The AHCI driver in libpayload uses 30 seconds, and that time-out was
added in commit 354066e1 (libpayload: ahci: Increase timeout for
signature reading) with the description below.
> We can't read the drives signature before it's ready, i.e. spun up.
> So set the timeout to the standard 30s. Also put a notice on the
> console, so the user knows why the signature reading failed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Paul Menzel