On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 7:12 PM Frederick Grose <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 2:04 AM Frederick Grose <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> See https://github.com/livecd-tools/livecd-tools/pull/176. >> >> A cumulative update, best reviewed by testing. >> >> Enable formatting of a separate EFI System Partition and Apple HFS+ boot >> partition based on the files efiboot.img and macboot.img in the /images >> directory of the source. This means EFI booting is possible with overlay >> sizes as large as the free space on the primary partition. >> Support F2FS type formatting for the device root, home, or overlay >> filesystems. >> Provide boot support for F2FS-formatted discs with an EFI Boot Stub loader >> from dracut, as GRUB support for F2FS is faulty at this time. >> Allow conversion of the root filesystem type between ext[234], btrfs, xfs, >> & F2FS and their available block sizes with editliveos. >> Allow a Device-mapper target to be the target device for installation. >> This would enable concurrent multi device installation through a >> preconfigured Device-mapper mirror target. >> >> Also, >> - introduce the --noesp option to --format to avoid the extra partitions; >> - on UEFI booted hosts, offer to create a UEFI boot entry for F2FS-based >> installations; >> - do not require SYSLINUX-EXTLINUX on the installation host; >> - take greater advantage of BASH case statements for code structure; >> - use fallocate on filesystem creation to reserve storage space for >> embedded filesystems; >> - add a trap ERR line for error reporting in livecd-iso-to-disk; >> - provide better support for isoscan/filename boots from .iso files; >> - delete the uncompressed image file just after compression to make >> more space available, if preservation of temporary files is not selected; >> - use bind mounts for /run, /sys, & /dev in liveimage-mount; >> - update documentation. >> >> ref: ... as GRUB support for F2FS is faulty at this time. >> >> I found that the following command run against a livecd-iso-to-disk >> installed LiveUSB, >> >> sudo grub2-install -v --boot-directory=/run/media/ \liveuser/ESP/EFI/BOOT >> --compress=xz --modules="part_gpt part_msdos f2fs" >> --efi-directory=/run/media/ \liveuser/ESP/EFI --no-bootsector --removable -s >> --target=x86_64-efi --recheck /run/media/liveuser/ESP/ >> >> produces a BOOTX64.EFI that recognizes the F2FS filesystem on listing >> (hd0,gpt1) but scrolls blank lines continuously when listing (hd0,gpt1)/ >> I suspect that f2fs.mod is not fully compatible with f2fs ver 1.14. >> >> Confirmation and followup on this would be appreciated. >> >> I haven't been able to locate the source code that specifies the modules >> included in the EFI boot loaders that are provided with the Fedora Live >> .isos. A pointer to that would be appreciated too. > > > > An incompatibility has been confirmed for F2FS extra_attr formatted > filesystems with GRUB f2fs.mod. See > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2021-01/msg00009.html > and > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59976 > The new force-pushed commit now says, > (https://github.com/livecd-tools/livecd-tools/commit/7c6c53144608eb4c60f0da9a4c2a5ff06b533e9c) > > Provide a GRUB EFI boot binary with basic F2FS filesystem support for > x86_64 architecture systems. > Provide boot support for F2FS extra_attr formatted discs with an EFI Boot > Stub loader from dracut, as GRUB support for this format is faulty at > this time. > > When run on a UEFI booted host, livecd-iso-to-disk will offer to write a UEFI > boot entry into the host computer UEFI Boot Manager. It also now reports on > the situation, if relevant, when the script ends. > > I'm still searching for where in the Fedora tool chain the GRUB EFI boot > binaries' module lists are specified and composed. Adding f2fs.mod to the > default filesystem list would be the goal.
Javier, do you know anything about this? -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ livecd mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
