Although double '/' in paths is not a problem for GRUB supplied with nixpkgs, sometimes NixOS's grub.conf read by external GRUB and there are versions of GRUB which fail
The background color option is self-explanatory.
The mode is either `normal` or `stretch`, they are as defined by GRUB,
where normal will put the image in the top-left corner of the menu, and
stretch is the default, where it stretches the image without
consideration for the aspect ratio.
* https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#background_005fimage
GRUB 2.0 supports png, jpeg and tga. This will use the image's suffix to
load the right module.
As jpeg module is named jpeg, jpg is renamed jpeg.
If the user uses wrong image suffix for an image, it wouldn't work anyway.
This will leave up to two additional left-over files in /boot/ if user switches
through all the supported file formats. The module already left the png
image if the user disabled the splash image.
Regression introduced by 801c920e95.
Since then, the btrfsSimple subtest of the installer VM test fails with:
Btrfs did not return a path for the subvolume at /
The reason for this is that the output for "btrfs subvol show" has
changed between version 4.8.2 and 4.13.1.
For example the output of "btrfs subvol show /" in version 4.8.2 was:
/ is toplevel subvolume
In version 4.13.1, the output now is the following and thus the regular
expressions used in nixos-generate-config.pl and install-grub.pl now
match (which results in the error mentioned above):
/
Name: <FS_TREE>
UUID: -
Parent UUID: -
Received UUID: -
Creation time: -
Subvolume ID: 5
Generation: 287270
Gen at creation: 0
Parent ID: 0
Top level ID: 0
Flags: -
Snapshot(s):
In order to fix this I've changed nixos-generate-config.pl and
install-grub.pl, because both use "btrfs subvol show" in a similar vein,
so the regex for parsing the output now doesn't match anymore whenever
the volume path is "/", which should result in the same behaviour as we
had with btrfs-progs version 4.8.2.
Tested against the btrfsSimple, btrfsSubvols and btrfsSubvolDefault
subtests of the installer VM test and they all succeed now.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
The default font is unreadably small on some hidpi displays. This
makes it possible to specify a TrueType or OpenType font at any point
size, and it will automatically be converted to the format the Grub
uses.
Restructure the nixos-artwork to make it easy to selectively
incorporate other components from upstream without needing to download
the full package.
Until now only the Gnome_Dark wallpaper was included. Add other
wallpapers available in the package repository.
Someone on IRC wanted to boot Fedora from another disk. While I'm not
too familiar with UEFI booting in conjunction with GRUB2 it took some
time to get it to work.
So in order to safe others from frustration I'm adding this as another
example to the extraEntries option.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
This reverts commit c2b56626f1.
It broke creating the manual. I suspect the descriptions are
auto-wrapped by <para> and </para>.
We've been through this already in 3af715af90.
/cc #24978, @zraexy, @Mic92.
This reverts commit 656cc3acaf because it
causes building the manual to fail:
$ nixos-rebuild build
...
building path(s) ‘/nix/store/s9y5z78z5pssvmixcmv9ix13gs8xj87f-manual-olinkdb’
Writing /nix/store/s9y5z78z5pssvmixcmv9ix13gs8xj87f-manual-olinkdb/manual.db for book(book-nixos-manual)
./man-pages.xml:625: element para: Relax-NG validity error : Did not expect element para there
./man-pages.xml:3: element variablelist: Relax-NG validity error : Element refsection has extra content: variablelist
./man-pages.xml:29: element refsection: Relax-NG validity error : Element refentry has extra content: refsection
./man-pages.xml:3: element reference: Relax-NG validity error : Element reference failed to validate content
./man-pages.xml fails to validate
CC @cleverca22, @Mic92
Using the --force option on GRUB isn't recommended, but there are very
specific instances where it makes sense. One example is installing on a
partitionless disk.
When Grub is to be used with UEFI, it is not going to write to any MBR
of any disk. As such, it is safe to use multiple "nodev" device entries
when mirroring the ESP partition to multiple disks.
E.g.:
```
boot.loader.grub = {
enable = true;
version = 2;
zfsSupport = true;
efiSupport = true;
mirroredBoots = [
{ devices = [ "nodev" ]; path = "/boot1"; efiSysMountPoint = "/boot1"; }
{ devices = [ "nodev" ]; path = "/boot2"; efiSysMountPoint = "/boot2"; }
{ devices = [ "nodev" ]; path = "/boot3"; efiSysMountPoint = "/boot3"; }
];
};
boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
```
Fixes#18584
Both btrfs-progs and utillinux are ~5MB, we may discuss in future
to handle this better but I see no better way at the moment than
increaing purity in the install process.
