Because the ESP mount point (/boot/efi) is in mtree, tar will attempt to
extract a directory at that point post-mount when the system is installed.
Normally, this is fine, since tar can happily set whatever properties it
wants. For FAT32 file systems, however, like the ESP, tar will attempt to
set mtime on the root directory, which FAT does not support, and tar will
interpret this as a fatal error, breaking the install (see
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1516). This issue would
also break scripted installs on bare-metal POWER8, POWER9, and PS3
systems, as well as some ARM systems.
This patch solves the problem in two ways:
- If stdout is a TTY, use the distextract stage instead of tar, as in
interactive installs. distextract solves this problem internally and
provides a nicer UI to boot, but requires a TTY.
- If stdout is not a TTY, use tar but, as a stopgap for 13.0, exclude
boot/efi from tarball extraction and then add it by hand. This is a
hack, and better solutions (as in the libarchive ticket above) will
obsolete it, but it solves the most common case, leaving only
unattended TTY-less installs on a few tier-2 platforms broken.
In addition, fix a bug with fstab generation uncovered once the tar issue
is fixed that umount(8) can depend on the ordering of lines in fstab in a
way that mount(8) does not. The partition editor now writes out fstab in
mount order, making sure umount (run at the end of scripted, but not
interactive, installs) succeeds.
PR: 254395
Reviewed by: gjb, imp
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29380
This resulted in the partitioning step failing if either of the
"Auto (UFS)" or "Manual" options were selected.
Reason: partedit was attempting to open a directory (TMPDIR) read/write,
which resulted in errno(2) 21 - EISDIR - Is a directory.
Reported by: Clay Daniels <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@freqlabs.com>
Approved by: emaste, bcran
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23232
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
No functional change intended.
The POSIX version of basename() doesn't use a 'const char *' argument;
the function may overwrite its input buffer. Instead of copying the
input string, let's just simplify this code by using our getprogname()
function that already returns the name of the application in the right
format.
Reviewed by: allanjude
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6094
For Lenovo laptops with buggy bios (x220, t420, t520):
Write the 0xee entry into the second slot in the pmbr instead of the first
For some Dell and HP models:
The BIOS gives a warning message when booting in legacy mode from a GPT partitioned disk where the 0xee partition in the pmbr is not flagged active
For models known to have this problem, mark the pmbr active during installation
Use smbios data to identify machines known to be affected by any of the above, and offer the user the option to apply the workaround
In bsdinstall's ufs auto mode (autopart partition wizard):
Allow users to select which type of partition table to use
Keep current defaults: MBR for BIOS, GPT for UEFI
This allows users to choose GPT for legacy boot if they wish
PR: 184910
PR: 194359
Reviewed by: Michael Dexter
Approved by: marcel
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-With: r285594
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3091
type. GEOM provider names can't duplicate (or shouldn't -- devfs will either
break or only use the first one if they do) so using the first provider
by that name is a sufficient check. This also lets the scripted partitioner
install onto gmirror and geli and such things.
will come soon. This lets the install process have a line like:
bsdinstall scriptedpart 'ada0 GPT {1.5G freebsd-ufs /, 10G freebsd-swap,
auto freebsd-ufs /usr}'
to set up a system with a 1.5GB /, some swap space, and a /usr using the
rest of ada0.
MFC after: 1 month
pc-sysinstall) a replacement for sysinstall in the 9.0 release and beyond.
Currently supported platforms are sparc64, pc98, i386, amd64, powerpc, and
powerpc64. Integration into the build system will occur in the coming
weeks.
Merging with pc-sysinstall will use this code as a frontend, while
temporarily retaining the interactive partition editor here. This work
will be done in parallel with improvements on this code and release
integration.
Thanks to all who have provided testing and comments!
