Bug 6308

Summary:	grub-efi deployed image should be netboot capable and have some debug help
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Bill Mills <wmills>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Unassigned <unassigned>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Medium	CC:	alanp, anuj.mittal, bruce.ashfield, kexin.hao, liezhi.yang, randy.macleod, sgw, tom.zanussi
Version:	1.7
Target Milestone:	5.99
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Don't know

Description Bill Mills 2014-05-09 21:19:25 UTC

grub-efi creates a very minimal grub image that can boot from a disk
It does not have the modules needed to netboot.
It also has zero extra commands to help someone out when something goes wrong.

In [1] I add more modules to the composite grub image to allow more features.
This comes with only a very moderate increase in size.

(The standalone composite image in [1] is out of scope for this request. See Bug#6307 for coverage of that.)

[1] http://arago-project.org/files/short-term/misc/make-netbootia32.tar.bz2

Comment 1 Bill Mills 2015-03-09 18:29:37 UTC

This is really an hour or so to change and get working.
The other time is senario testing and socialization.

Comment 2 Randy MacLeod 2022-06-09 15:19:50 UTC

Newcomer or Kevin if he ever has less to do in his WR work.

Comment 3 Randy MacLeod 2023-10-24 14:24:44 UTC

Bulk move from 4.99 or 0.00 to 5.99

Comment 4 Alan Perry 2023-11-16 06:36:10 UTC

I have done a lot of work on networked and efi GRUB and could probably figure this out.

However, this bug does not include a list of modules to add and the link to the composite grub image mentioned in elsewhere in this bug does not seem to work now.

Comment 5 Randy MacLeod 2024-04-25 01:08:31 UTC

Move to 5.99 since no one is actively working on this issue.

Comment 6 Alan Perry 2024-04-25 04:18:06 UTC

I am willing to work on it if the list of modules was identified.

Comment 7 Randy MacLeod 2024-04-25 15:41:39 UTC

Thanks Alan!

I can't help with the list of modules so let's see if Kexin can.
If not, pick a couple that you think are useful and testable I guess.

Comment 8 Kevin Hao 2024-04-26 11:06:16 UTC

Sorry, I also don't have the list of modules.

Comment 9 Randy MacLeod 2024-04-26 13:23:57 UTC

Thanks for the reply Kexin.

Bill, are you able to provide an initial list to Alan?

Comment 10 Randy MacLeod 2024-05-02 14:54:34 UTC

Add Anuj, who may also be able to provide a list of modules to test.

Comment 11 Anuj Mittal 2024-05-03 01:55:30 UTC

The original bug seems to have been filed for Minnow board/32 bit and is quite old so the original list or steps might not be helpful anyway.

May be we can look at the Ubuntu script: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/grub/+git/ubuntu/tree/debian/build-efi-images#n203 and see what they enable for network boot and enable and test?

Comment 12 Randy MacLeod 2024-05-16 15:28:35 UTC

Bill, see Anuj's comment.

Comment 13 Alan Perry 2024-05-16 23:20:20 UTC

Can someone describe a list of scenarios that might go wrong where additional commands would help? I know what I needed when I was trying to resolve network boot problems but I don't want to limit this to what I found I needed.

Comment 14 Randy MacLeod 2025-02-20 16:17:48 UTC

Bill, please retake if you have time to work in this.