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Add support for installing static grub configs #543

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grub: Support multiple platform files

In practice, just one should be enough but let's expand
in case.


Add support for installing static grub configs

Currently these are duplicated in osbuild and coreos-assembler.
We will aim to deduplicate them here.

Ideally we'd add support for "day 2" updates of these; I started
on a patch for that but it's sadly messy.

This is an incremental improvement.


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OK this is now tested in concert with coreos/coreos-assembler#3631

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if [ -n "${boot_counter}" -a "${boot_success}" = "0" ]; then
# if countdown has ended, choose to boot rollback deployment,
# i.e. default=1 on OSTree-based systems.
if [ "${boot_counter}" = "0" -o "${boot_counter}" = "-1" ]; then
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why forcing 0 to be -1 when it can happen with decrement boot_counter automatically , I have seen similar things here , couldn't understand the logic behind this.

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I have no idea either, I'm just copying it from the osbuild code.

But actually the more I think about this, the more it feels like the right move actually is to keep these grub drop-ins in ignition.rpm and greenboot.rpm respectively in say /usr/lib/bootupd/grub2-static or so. WDYT?

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having it in rpm makes sense, though during the installation process I am not sure how to set that up in grub.cfg , which image builder writes it directly in the config

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The higher level direction here is we will switch Image Builder (Edge) to basically run bootupctl backend install instead of owning the bootloader configs and grub installation on its own.

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Seems fair.
May not be an appropriate question, still I am going to ask to clear my doubts: Though I dont see many user doing this , but package installed using using rpm installer will require additional bootupctl backend install to be run again to update the bootloader configs?

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We don't directly support updating the configs yet.

(In practice of course, it will trivially work to just cp them manually)

@cgwalters cgwalters force-pushed the install-grub-configs-simpler branch from 8b88e3f to f9ce09c Compare October 12, 2023 13:59
cgwalters added a commit to cgwalters/ignition that referenced this pull request Oct 12, 2023
This pairs with coreos/bootupd#543
Basically we want bootupd to take care of installing this.  Add
the config here (where it more closely arguably belongs) so
that it can be optionally installed.

My proposal for at least the Fedora packaging of Ignition
is that we unconditionally depend on bootupd and install this,
because there's no one there using Ignition who doesn't want bootupd.
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xref coreos/ignition#1728

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This ensures that we'll use `/boot/efi` first, which is what
is more commonly expected in our current ecosystem.
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travier commented Oct 17, 2023

Not tested but LGTM.

I would recommend forcing a number-prefixed format for the XY-foo.cfg drop-ins so that we have a strong ordering guarantee for the final config.

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I would recommend forcing a number-prefixed format for the XY-foo.cfg drop-ins so that we have a strong ordering guarantee for the final config.

Good catch; I've added sorting. A bit less certain about actually forcing a numeric prefix; just saying they're sorted seems OK for now.

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Currently these are duplicated in osbuild and coreos-assembler.
We will aim to deduplicate them here.

Ideally we'd add support for "day 2" updates of these; I started
on a patch for that but it's sadly messy.

This is an incremental improvement.

Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
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Apart from the one general question, LGTM.

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lgtm

@cgwalters cgwalters merged commit 66735ba into coreos:main Oct 19, 2023
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cgwalters added a commit to cgwalters/ignition that referenced this pull request Oct 19, 2023
This pairs with coreos/bootupd#543
Basically we want bootupd to take care of installing this.  Add
the config here (where it more closely arguably belongs) so
that it can be optionally installed.

My proposal for at least the Fedora packaging of Ignition
is that we unconditionally depend on bootupd and install this,
because there's no one there using Ignition who doesn't want bootupd.
jlebon pushed a commit to cgwalters/ignition that referenced this pull request Oct 19, 2023
This pairs with coreos/bootupd#543
Basically we want bootupd to take care of installing this.  Add
the config here (where it more closely arguably belongs) so
that it can be optionally installed.

My proposal for at least the Fedora packaging of Ignition
is that we unconditionally depend on bootupd and install this,
because there's no one there using Ignition who doesn't want bootupd.
cgwalters added a commit to cgwalters/greenboot that referenced this pull request Oct 23, 2023
This pairs with coreos/bootupd#543
to have bootupd support injecting the greenboot grub logic
only if greenboot is installed.
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xref fedora-iot/greenboot#129

dustymabe added a commit to dustymabe/fedora-coreos-config that referenced this pull request Dec 15, 2023
bootupd upstream was modified to store default static grub configs
and allow for OS integrators to add their own snippets by placing
files in /usr/lib/bootupd/grub2-static/configs.d/ [1] When we move
to building with osbuild we will start taking advantage of this
functionality and calling bootupd with --with-static-configs. Let's
go ahead and add our snippets here so they can be leveraged when we
start calling bootupd with --with-static-configs.

The snippets added here come from the parts of the config currently
defined in coreos-assembler that weren't lifted into bootupd [2][3][4].

[1] coreos/bootupd#543
[2] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L58-L60
[3] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L71-L85
[4] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L87-L91
dustymabe added a commit to dustymabe/coreos-installer that referenced this pull request Dec 15, 2023
Upstream we are starting to use grub configs that are partially
baked into bootupd [1] and partially baked into the image via
the OS vendor (in our case a grub2/50_coreos.cfg file [2]). Let's
look first to see if grub2/50_coreos.cfg exists when trying to
write new console settings before falling back to grub2/grub.cfg.

[1] coreos/bootupd#543
[2] coreos/fedora-coreos-config#2769
dustymabe added a commit to dustymabe/coreos-installer that referenced this pull request Dec 15, 2023
Upstream we are starting to use grub configs that are partially
baked into bootupd [1] and partially baked into the image via
the OS vendor (in our case a grub2/50_coreos.cfg file [2]). Let's
look first to see if grub2/50_coreos.cfg exists when trying to
write new console settings before falling back to grub2/grub.cfg.

[1] coreos/bootupd#543
[2] coreos/fedora-coreos-config#2769
dustymabe added a commit to dustymabe/coreos-installer that referenced this pull request Dec 15, 2023
Upstream we are starting to use grub configs that are partially
baked into bootupd [1] and partially baked into the image via
the OS vendor (in our case a grub2/50_coreos.cfg file [2]). Let's
look first to see if grub2/50_coreos.cfg exists when trying to
write new console settings before falling back to grub2/grub.cfg.

[1] coreos/bootupd#543
[2] coreos/fedora-coreos-config#2769
dustymabe added a commit to dustymabe/coreos-installer that referenced this pull request Dec 15, 2023
Upstream we are starting to use grub configs that are partially
baked into bootupd [1] and partially baked into the image via
the OS vendor (in our case a grub2/30_console.cfg file [2]). Let's
look first to see if grub2/30_console.cfg exists when trying to
write new console settings before falling back to grub2/grub.cfg.

[1] coreos/bootupd#543
[2] coreos/fedora-coreos-config#2769
dustymabe added a commit to dustymabe/fedora-coreos-config that referenced this pull request Dec 15, 2023
bootupd upstream was modified to store default static grub configs
and allow for OS integrators to add their own snippets by placing
files in /usr/lib/bootupd/grub2-static/configs.d/ [1] When we move
to building with osbuild we will start taking advantage of this
functionality and calling bootupd with --with-static-configs. Let's
go ahead and add our snippets here so they can be leveraged when we
start calling bootupd with --with-static-configs.

The snippets added here come from the parts of the config currently
defined in coreos-assembler that weren't lifted into bootupd [2][3][4].

[1] coreos/bootupd#543
[2] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L58-L60
[3] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L71-L85
[4] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L87-L91
dustymabe added a commit to coreos/fedora-coreos-config that referenced this pull request Dec 15, 2023
bootupd upstream was modified to store default static grub configs
and allow for OS integrators to add their own snippets by placing
files in /usr/lib/bootupd/grub2-static/configs.d/ [1] When we move
to building with osbuild we will start taking advantage of this
functionality and calling bootupd with --with-static-configs. Let's
go ahead and add our snippets here so they can be leveraged when we
start calling bootupd with --with-static-configs.

The snippets added here come from the parts of the config currently
defined in coreos-assembler that weren't lifted into bootupd [2][3][4].

[1] coreos/bootupd#543
[2] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L58-L60
[3] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L71-L85
[4] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L87-L91
dustymabe added a commit to dustymabe/fedora-coreos-config that referenced this pull request Jan 5, 2024
bootupd upstream was modified to store default static grub configs
and allow for OS integrators to add their own snippets by placing
files in /usr/lib/bootupd/grub2-static/configs.d/ [1] When we move
to building with osbuild we will start taking advantage of this
functionality and calling bootupd with --with-static-configs. Let's
go ahead and add our snippets here so they can be leveraged when we
start calling bootupd with --with-static-configs.

The snippets added here come from the parts of the config currently
defined in coreos-assembler that weren't lifted into bootupd [2][3][4].

[1] coreos/bootupd#543
[2] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L58-L60
[3] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L71-L85
[4] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L87-L91

(cherry picked from commit b40f727)
dustymabe added a commit to coreos/fedora-coreos-config that referenced this pull request Jan 5, 2024
bootupd upstream was modified to store default static grub configs
and allow for OS integrators to add their own snippets by placing
files in /usr/lib/bootupd/grub2-static/configs.d/ [1] When we move
to building with osbuild we will start taking advantage of this
functionality and calling bootupd with --with-static-configs. Let's
go ahead and add our snippets here so they can be leveraged when we
start calling bootupd with --with-static-configs.

The snippets added here come from the parts of the config currently
defined in coreos-assembler that weren't lifted into bootupd [2][3][4].

[1] coreos/bootupd#543
[2] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L58-L60
[3] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L71-L85
[4] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L87-L91

(cherry picked from commit b40f727)
aaradhak pushed a commit to aaradhak/fedora-coreos-config that referenced this pull request Mar 18, 2024
bootupd upstream was modified to store default static grub configs
and allow for OS integrators to add their own snippets by placing
files in /usr/lib/bootupd/grub2-static/configs.d/ [1] When we move
to building with osbuild we will start taking advantage of this
functionality and calling bootupd with --with-static-configs. Let's
go ahead and add our snippets here so they can be leveraged when we
start calling bootupd with --with-static-configs.

The snippets added here come from the parts of the config currently
defined in coreos-assembler that weren't lifted into bootupd [2][3][4].

[1] coreos/bootupd#543
[2] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L58-L60
[3] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L71-L85
[4] https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/blob/4636b1a5c6dc00b1d6a58b1bfbb199431444336b/src/grub.cfg#L87-L91
djach7 pushed a commit to djach7/greenboot that referenced this pull request Apr 9, 2024
This pairs with coreos/bootupd#543
to have bootupd support injecting the greenboot grub logic
only if greenboot is installed.
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