the pve-kernel-meta patches were prepared on top of the pve-kernel-5.4 branch
rfc->v1:
* Thanks to Fabian's great feedback this version handles a few cases I did not
think of for the RFC (e.g. an update to grub which runs grub-install and
removes the core.img/stage0 pointing to the ESP (instead of the zfs pool)
* pve-kernel-helper now adds a diversion (dpkg-divert(1)) to grub-install,
which should prevent users/grub-upgrades accidentally overwriting grub
with a config which tries to boot from the zpool
* both `update-grub` and the config it generates adds a banner/warning if
proxmox-boot is used (notifying the user where the correct place for editing
is)
* the renaming from pve-efiboot-tool to proxmox-boot-tool was carried further
to also include all hooks and snippets
* a first version of a patch for pve-installer was added (and very roughly
tested)
original cover-letter for the RFC:
This patchset has been long overdue, and complements the solution to booting
ZFS on UEFI systems using systemd-boot.
With the upgrade of ZFS 2.0.0 (and it's support for ZSTD compression), quite
a few users found out that their systems were still booted with legacy bios
boot and were consequently rendered unbootable with enabling zstd
compression on (a dataset on rpool).
The solution is inspired by our community-forum, especially @avw, and seems
rather lightweight (patch 2/2 is best viewed with '-w').
My first approach was to generate a working grub-config ourselves, but
given that grub has a few years of handling special cases - bind-mounting
the ESP on /boot and running 'update-grub' seems like a less painful way.
* patch 1/2 renames pve-efiboot-tool to proxmox-boot-tool (which seems more
appropriate by now)
* patch 2/2 adds support for installing grub appropriately on the ESPs
and running the kernel sync-logic in a way that update-grub feels fine
with
Sending as RFC, because this is a proof-of-concept and missing quite a few
things.
What works:
* installing this version on a root ZFS RAID-Z@ PVE (based on an old pre 6.2
install)
* reformatting all 4 ESPs `proxmox-boot-tool format /dev/sda2 --force)
* initializing them
* rebooting into 5.4.106 and zfs 2.0.0
* upgrading the pool, setting compression=zstd, writing a file, rebooting
(successfully)
* rebooting into an old 5.3 kernel - and getting greeted by busy-box instead
of grub-rescue
What's missing (at least):
* support in the installer
* the renaming is not quite through (the kernel-hooks are still containing
pve/efi in their name)
* testing the removal part of the$kernel-sync
pve-kernel-meta:
Stoiko Ivanov (7):
proxmox-boot-tool: rename from pve-efiboot-tool
proxmox-boot-tool: add status command
proxmox-boot-tool: sort and remove duplicates on clean
proxmox-boot: rename uuid list file
proxmox-boot-tool: handle legacy boot zfs installs
proxmox-boot: add grub.cfg header snippet
proxmox-boot: add grub-install wrapper
Makefile | 2 +-
bin/Makefile | 3 +-
bin/grub-install-wrapper | 12 +++
bin/{pve-efiboot-tool => proxmox-boot-tool} | 52 +++++++++---
debian/pve-kernel-helper.install | 5 +-
debian/pve-kernel-helper.links | 1 +
debian/pve-kernel-helper.postinst | 10 +++
debian/pve-kernel-helper.postrm | 14 ++++
debian/pve-kernel-helper.preinst | 9 +++
proxmox-boot/000_proxmox_boot_header | 22 +++++
{efiboot => proxmox-boot}/Makefile | 8 +-
{efiboot => proxmox-boot}/functions | 2 +-
.../proxmox-auto-removal | 0
.../proxmox-boot-sync | 2 +-
.../zz-proxmox-boot | 81 +++++++++++++------
15 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 bin/grub-install-wrapper
rename bin/{pve-efiboot-tool => proxmox-boot-tool} (88%)
create mode 100644 debian/pve-kernel-helper.links
create mode 100644 debian/pve-kernel-helper.postinst
create mode 100644 debian/pve-kernel-helper.postrm
create mode 100644 debian/pve-kernel-helper.preinst
create mode 100755 proxmox-boot/000_proxmox_boot_header
rename {efiboot => proxmox-boot}/Makefile (72%)
rename {efiboot => proxmox-boot}/functions (98%)
rename efiboot/pve-auto-removal => proxmox-boot/proxmox-auto-removal (100%)
rename efiboot/pve-efiboot-sync => proxmox-boot/proxmox-boot-sync (84%)
rename efiboot/zz-pve-efiboot => proxmox-boot/zz-proxmox-boot (69%)
pve-installer:
Stoiko Ivanov (1):
always boot zfs with proxmox-boot-tool
proxinstall | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
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2.20.1
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