1. Move from (UEFISYS)/efi to (UEFISYS)/EFI , since some firmwares
assume FS is case-sensitive and use /EFI over /efi
2. Move UEFI bootloaders pre-check stuff to do_uefi_common()
3. Make sure Archboot installed rEFInd files (from refind-bin.zip) do
not conflict with AUR refind-x86_64 package files
4. Provide option for moving UEFI bootloader file to
(UEFISYS)/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi
5. Setup network connectivity before try to download refind-bin.zip,
if that file does not exist.
1. Use "cp", not "install" tool, to setup rEFInd in the setup script
2. Add rEFInd to iso at (ISO)/packages/refind-bin.zip
3. Use "cp -f" and "cp -rf" everywhere
4. In update-iso.sh, make sure updated setup script is copied to
(ISO)/arch/setup apart from updating the same in the initramfs files
5. Fix FSSPECS issue (in for loop) in autoprepare() in setup script
6. Added /usr/sbin/partprobe , /usr/bin/{bsdtar,bsdcpio} in arch_base
- useful for rescue stuff and needed for setting up rEFInd
7. Split up EFISTUB and rEFInd functions
1. Generate -dual, -x86_64, -i686 isos at the end of allinone.sh script
2. Split bootloader config from files-replace functions in update-iso.sh script
3. Create FAT32 filesystem in UEFISYS partition in autoprepare() in GPT
4. Revamp UEFISYS partition detection. Now the script ALWAYS uses the
first EF00 partition detected by sgdisk. It offers to format the
partition as FAT32 if required. But manually mounted UEFISYS partition
(at /boot/efi before launching /arch/setup) will be unmounted, so no
use doing that.
5. Fix issues with /boot/efi/EFI and /boot/efi/efi . Although FAT fs
is case-insensitive, sometimes this case-issues crop up since by
default grub2's grub-install seems to favour /boot/efi/EFI while
Arch's rEFInd package favours /boot/efi/efi. grub-install works ok
with /boot/efi/efi if it detects it.
1. Move UEFI Shell binaries from /efi/shell/ to /efi/tools/ . This way
some firmware (might) autodetect the shell.
2. Redirect xorriso output to a text file, do not discard it. It may
prove useful.
3. Minor fixes to grub2 config in setup script.
4. Check for existence of respective grub2 core files before running
dogrub2_common_after (grub.cfg etc.).
5. Check for existence of /boot/efi/efi/arch_grub/grubx64.efi before
running efibootmgr ro prevent stale boot entries.
6. Remove duplicate efibootmgr entries (those with same LABEL).
* Detect UEFI and Kernel Arch mismatch and add noefi to kernel
parameters in such a case, while uefi booting archboot (not in setup
script)
* Split x86_64 and i686 kernel parameter variables in uefi
grub_archboot.cfg due to above reason
* use /sys/class/dmi/id instead of dmidecode, dmidecode removed from
initramfs (bbut arch_dmidecode still exists)
* Added support for separate /usr in grub2 config, added grub2 search
hints support in config
* Re arranged bootloader menu, submenus per firmware, suffixed _bios
or _uefi_ to bootloader functions
* Minor (misc.) modifications in setup script
TODO: Implement Apple mactel-boot efi bless code
TODO: Implement elilo for x86_64 UEFI
- Separated x86_64 and i686 specific code in all-in-one script so that
a x86_64 only iso can be created if needed.
- revamp grub2 uefi config used in all-in-one and update-iso scripts
- added "gpt loglevel=7" to kernel parameters
- Enabled xz compression for packages squashfs files
- xz initramfs (in archboot-update-iso.sh)
- used INITRD option in syslinux config files
- change PREFIX for GRUB2_UEFI in setup script to /boot/grub as per
changes in grub2 bzr r3856 (upstream), package will be in the repos
shortly
- disable get_grub2_map() , grub-mkdevicemap removed by upstream in r3856
- revamp dogrub2_config function
- common config for both grub2-bios and grub2 uefi in setup script
(required r3856 pkg)
- use sgdisk alone for auto_prepare gpt in setup script
- increase UEFISYS part size to 512 MiB in auto_prepare in setup
script (required for alternate UEFI bootloaders)
- fix repeating .efi in efibootmgr command in setup script
- other minor fixes, added quotes whereever required
- [TRIED TO] fix quickinst script
-iso-level 3 option to xorriso command, update_setup
script to match the all-in-one script, and also some things like
parted being launched twice during grub2-efi installation
2. Comment out all the i386-efi booting related functions in the all-in-one script.
3. Minor/Cosmetic changes in all-in-one script and the installer/setup script.
(ii) steve__ forum description highlighting archboot boot problems in MacMini
2ng Gen (32-bit efi - needs efi_uga grub2 module to be loaded which archboot did
not) and
(iii) using xorriso 1.0.4 's isohybrid option instead of calling isohybrid
