Now grub.cfg shows all the kernel options. Before this patch when you
had more than two kernels it only showed the auto option.
Signed-off-by: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
To generate an hdd image, binary_hdd first estimates the needed size of
the image using du. By default, when du finds multiple hardlinked copies
of a file, it counts them only once. However, when the target filesystem
is FAT, which does not support hardlinks, these files will take up more
space when finally copying the contents, breaking the build:
P: Copying binary contents into image...
cp: error writing 'chroot/binary.tmp/live/initrd.img-4.9.0-3-amd64': No space left on device
cp: error writing 'chroot/binary.tmp/efi/boot/bootx64.efi': No space left on device
cp: error writing 'chroot/binary.tmp/efi/boot/bootia32.efi': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'chroot/binary.tmp/boot/grub': No space left on device
cp: cannot create directory 'chroot/binary.tmp/isolinux': No space left on device
To fix this, pass --count-links to du when the target is FAT, to make
the space estimation correct.
This problem is exposed by commit 9c974b26b (Instead of renaming kernel
for syslinux, create hardlinks), which might need to be separately fixed
(to not waste space on FAT targets), but binary_hdd should at least
handle hardlinks more gracefully.
Recent versions of Linux, parted or some other bit of software cause
partition devices, like /dev/loop0p1 to be created when running parted
mkpart. However, these devices are not cleaned up when running
losetup -d to remove /dev/loop0 later, so they linger around and confuse
mkfs (which refuses to make a filesystem, thinking there are partitions):
mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
mkfs.vfat: Partitions or virtual mappings on device '/dev/loop0', not making filesystem (use -I to override)
To prevent this behaviour, pass --partscan to losetup when adding a new
partition, to clean up any lingering partitions. It seems losetup does not
accept --partscan when deleting a loop device, to clean up at that point, but
since binary_hdd mounts the partition last, there should not be any lingering
partition devices after live-build is done.
The --partscan option is available since util-linux 2.21 (released in 2012), so
it should be fairly safe to pass it unconditionally.
Raphaël Hertzog
Roland Clobus
Luca Boccassi
Luca Boccassi
Raphaël Hertzog
Steve McIntyre
Adrian Gibanel Lopez
Balint Reczey
Matthijs Kooijman