This drastically reduces the content included in the embedded ESP
for live media, and avoids weird side-effects caused by extra EFI
binaries being present.
It seems the larger chunk size seems to slow the start of images in
low memory environments due to the ldconfig cache generator unit
eating gigabytes of memory from mapping the chunks into memory.
Attempt to work around this by lowering the chunk size while raising
the compression level to attempt to maintain image sizes.
The Raspberry Pi 3 does not recognize a FAT filesystem marked with
the 0xef type, so until we drop support for this device, hack the
partition manually to use a legacy FAT filesystem partition type.
It is hard to ensure that hardware support packages are pulled in
universally when it's splintered across different variant profiles.
To fix this and ensure Server benefits from this, unify everything
into a common profile and make everything require it.
This switches from SquashFS to EROFS using LZMA compression
with a 1M chunksize and fragement dedpulication for inodes enabled.
This attempts to match the defaults for SquashFS in kiwi and provides
a good balance for image compression and creation time.
Note that "-Ededupe" is not used because it is not multi-threaded and
is currently extremely slow.
Of the profiles that are currently listed, only LiveInstall
actually exists. Use BootCore instead, which all profiles derive
from. In most cases we'll end up locking the root user as part
of config.sh anyway.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Most of the changes are self-explanatory and just follow what's
already happening for existing architectures.
Two things are worth pointing out:
* we need to use shim-unsigned instead of shim-signed because
riscv64 is not fully integrated into Fedora yet and so we
can't do Secure Boot signing for the time being;
* we use ext4 as bootfilesystem since in most cases the
underlying firmware is going to be U-Boot, which needs to be
able to load the board's DTB from /boot and doesn't support
XFS.
Signed-off-by: David Abdurachmanov <davidlt@rivosinc.com>
Per #112, excluding group specs just does not work in Kiwi at
present. For LXQt this is especially a problem because it means
the image fails to compose. The exclusion of m17n* *does* work
as it's a package spec, but because the exclusion of the
input-methods group does not work, dnf wants to install
ibus-typing-booster (part of input-methods), which requires
m17n-lib, and these conflicting requirements cause it to blow up.
So at least until the problem of not being able to exclude
groups is resolved, we should drop these.
Arguably, we should permanently stop excluding input-methods, at
least. Space constraints aren't as huge of a deal these days as
they used to be, on the whole; lots of folks have decent bandwidth,
lots of disk space, and large USB sticks. Input methods are
critical for CJK users; leaving them off the image makes it more or
less useless for them, which is a significant impairment. (Unless,
that is, input methods don't work properly in LXQt even if included
- I haven't tested this).
Signed-off-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
Many of the older supported AArch64 systems (particularly single
board computers) require a legacy MBR (Master Boot Record) type
partitioning to successfully boot.
Group exclusions do not seem to work anymore with DNF5, so explicitly
filter out unwanted packages. Additionally, add missing unwanted
packages from the kickstarts and refactor it to apply to both
KDE Desktop and KDE Mobile profiles.
As it currently stands, this doubles the size of the live ISOs,
which is completely unacceptable.
We will need to make the switch eventually, but we need to figure
out how to compress better first.
This reverts commit 1457e97008.
EROFS is newer, more performant filesystem that emphasizes speed
and integrity over SquashFS. It is also much better maintained and
friendlier for flash-based storage that live media is typically
run from these days.
The boot environment for non-cloud disk images was incomplete,
leading to images not bootable on real hardware. This change
adds the missing packages to fix that.
The boot environment for non-cloud disk images was incomplete,
leading to images not bootable on real hardware. This change
adds the missing packages to fix that.
4096 blocksize is required for Macs, and some newer machines can see it,
but many other machines are not able to use the 4096 blocksize.
Signed-off-by: Troy Dawson <tdawson@redhat.com>
We discovered Neal got the regex for this wrong in the Kiwi
schema upstream. While he fixes that up, let's just ditch the
spaces here for now so it passes validation.
Signed-off-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
The bootable image support for ELN differs from boot.xml in
several ways:
* The images use XFS
* Several packages are dropped that are not present in ELN
Signed-off-by: Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com>
We want to be able to produce live ISOs for AArch64 and POWER with
the correct GRUB configuration. This also sets us up to handle any
quirks for each architecture platform as needed later.
This also includes a change to bump the EFI partition size for ISOs
to 30MB so everything fits.
Neal Gompa