-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Marek Marczykowski-Górecki: > Hi all, > > I'm building what hopefully will be R4.0-rc4 and I have two > reflections: > > 1. After upgrading templates to fedora-26 and debian-9, there is no way > the installation image will fit on DVD. Right now it takes 4908384256 > bytes. We probably could try to cut it down by eliminating even more > packages from templates, but I think there is no much non-essential > packages left there. For example we no longer ship vim in debian-9. > Right now I see two options: > - abandon the goal of fitting the image on DVD (I'd go for this) > - exclude some template from default installation...
OTOH in nearly all cases a user needs to install stuff from the net anyway. So downloading an additional template doesn't really hurt. And for example when restoring from a backup no additional templates are needed at all. > 2. grub suck at booting xen.efi (or rather: xen.efi is rather picky > about its environment). It seems in Xen 4.9 they added multiboot2 support and the commit messages claims that this works with grub2 and EFI [1] (And according to [2] that's the proper fix). But the commits don't look easy to backport ... > On many systems, booting xen.efi without grub > (using rEFInd, EFI shell, or simply by renaming it over BOOTX64.efi) > helps with boot problems. An idea: do not use grub on UEFI installation. > Downside: you loose boot menu - no way to choose or not media > verification, or rescue mode. And no way to adjust boot arguments, > needed on some platforms to workaround UEFI bugs... I think that's quite an important feature. So if this doesn't affect that many systems I would keep grub. > To do that, you'd need to edit EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg using some other > means. > Alternative: keep grub there, but provide an instruction how to boot > xen.efi directly, in short: > > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt # assuming /dev/sdb1 is installation USB > mv /mnt/EFI/BOOT/xen.efi /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi > mv /mnt/EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.cfg > umount /mnt > > After such operation, media verification would fail, obviously. [1]: https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=9180f53655245328f06c5051d3298376cb5771b1 [2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen/+bug/1520979/comments/4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE3E8ezGzG3N1CTQ//kO9xfO/xly8FAlpinroACgkQkO9xfO/x ly+4PA/8DoAqpbXh9jc2sYbZkGlFOQwbsXQ/GVlw9E5aACcOJ+cNyga5fAcNmS4e SHBxhFJzJ7CnJ7eo+TQ/oV/HXoIJjWeDB3ZZv8qRtV1T+AoFaV8a+sOdZ+x/TQbd Jiu+fGHTHzUHDhhfdEBc0VZVqfSmuNdlXLdPgHjt/H8knY0lJmYjE684aIdj0yFL ePtwh0Nq+SLz41vTsT1CqdS1SWRuQVYX/eZlzFiXCMRMOkDll9+pxNbDOA9k5ae+ mAt503dsgaFLHrjte++Mtgb0L0WAh7bFUzrTK3BwE8nw9Ok3A0/OCBKVdDouG8rc r8kEx8hGYeZhCND6Fku8kAiEt6Rt/S0tMy6Mbx47nPHFDcpGFsoeypJgkeldqH2H M3aUCnETsFuAWA2GdcxFDiKNmUiJMMtijwTpZ/IfzgWE0ZL/0Z6FNhDGHGWizaxL kmekYnLRMCG19trV99b2e/9acnLgKtKf3D1rkoJe1WyqtzyPZVvLd1JGj9uZN+RP QeapFfDfiSvq8YF4l+c3I2atkrGlxjVX6/K845PyWhO9u3mt9COqv+CkMeOn3pUl BxStY1CwjifArXj/jaTRNyUZeCWPsUL9x7GlZl90W5ACl23AGIVY5hUaBu1gbjiD Wb3nJnnbM1Xwr65o3b1uCdoiwgafHQTvvT4IWFPvCAxtVtQOrPI= =Ma/8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-devel@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/12def212-cfc9-14f4-e54f-9cbb6208bb0d%40invisiblethingslab.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
