From bbdb9512f33ab4a010dfe82883e041001d014a20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leah Rowe Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 06:04:42 +0000 Subject: grub.cfg: clean up comments --- resources/grub/config/grub.cfg | 62 +++++++----------------------------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) (limited to 'resources/grub') diff --git a/resources/grub/config/grub.cfg b/resources/grub/config/grub.cfg index 3820fb55..2b446890 100644 --- a/resources/grub/config/grub.cfg +++ b/resources/grub/config/grub.cfg @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ insmod usb insmod usbms insmod regexp -# Serial and keyboard configuration, very important. terminal_input --append at_keyboard terminal_input --append usb_keyboard terminal_output --append cbmemc @@ -26,11 +25,8 @@ elif [ -f (cbfsdisk)/background.jpg ]; then background_image (cbfsdisk)/background.jpg fi -# Default to first option, automatically boot after 1 second set default="0" set timeout=10 - -# This is useful when using 'cat' on long files on GRUB terminal set pager=1 keymap usqwerty @@ -47,19 +43,13 @@ function try_user_config { } function search_grub { echo -n "Attempting to load grub.cfg from: " - # TODO : Find a better way to detect how many disks - # : are on the computer instead of hardcoding. - # FIXME: Does this work on all boards? for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11; do - # TODO : Find a better way to detect how many partitions - # : are on the disk instead of hardcoding. echo "\nTrying disk ${1}${i}" for part in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20; do - # MBR/GPT partitions echo "\nTrying partiton ${part}" try_user_config "(${1}${i},${part})" done - # raw devices + # raw devices e.g. (ahci0) instead of (ahci0,1) echo "\nTrying to boot to a raw disk ..." try_user_config "(${1}${i})" echo # Insert newline @@ -78,15 +68,12 @@ function try_isolinux_config { } function search_isolinux { for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11; do - # TODO : Find a better way to detect how many partitions - # : are on the disk instead of hardcoding. echo "\nAttempting to parse isolinux menu from ${1}${i}" for part in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20; do - # MBR/GPT partitions echo "\nTrying partiton ${part}" try_isolinux_config "(${1}${i},${part})" done - # raw devices + # raw devices e.g. (usb0) instead of (usb0,1) echo "\nTrying raw usb device ..." try_isolinux_config "(${1}${i})" echo # Insert newline @@ -94,47 +81,24 @@ function search_isolinux { } menuentry 'Load Operating System (incl. fully encrypted disks) [o]' --hotkey='o' { -# GRUB2 handles (almost) every possible disk setup, but only the location of -# /boot is actually important since GRUB2 only loads the user's config. - -# LVM, RAID, filesystems and encryption on both raw devices and partitions in -# all various combinations need to be supported. Since full disk encryption is -# possible with GRUB2 as payload and probably even used by most users, this -# configuration tries to load the operating system in the following way: - -# 1. Look for user configuration on unencrypted devices first to avoid -# unnecessary decryption routines in the following order: - -# 1) raw devices and MBR/GPT partitions search_grub ahci search_grub ata -# 2) LVM and RAID which might be used accross multiple devices + + # grub device enumeration is very slow, so checks are hardcoded + + # TODO: add more strings, based on what distros set up when + # the user select auto-partitioning on those installers lvmvol="lvm/matrix-bootvol lvm/matrix-rootvol" - # TODO: add more entries to this string in the future, with common - # volume group names per common distro configs. look at what all the - # popular distros are doing when the user select automatic partitioning - # in their distro's installer. this still won't cover all use cases, - # but grub's enumeration of anything partition-related is very slow, - # so for now we hardcode everything in grub.cfg - - # again, hardcoded. grub's enumeration is always very slow. - # until that is optimized, we must hardcode everything in grub.cfg + raidvol="md/0 md/1 md/2 md/3 md/4 md/5 md/6 md/7 md/8 md/9" # in practise, doing multiple redundant checks is perfectly fast and - # ok, even if less technically correct # TODO: optimize grub itself, and use */? here for everything for vol in ${lvmvol} ${raidvol} ; do try_user_config "${vol}" done -# 2. In case no configuration could be found, try decrypting devices. Look -# on raw crypto devices as well as inside LVM volumes this time. -# The user will be prompted for a passphrase if a LUKS header was found. -# Encrypted disks and partitions -#TODO: This needs to be adjusted on each device to exclude ODD -#TODO: Usually ATA is for odd if both exist! unset ahcidev unset atadev for i in 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0; do @@ -151,21 +115,15 @@ menuentry 'Load Operating System (incl. fully encrypted disks) [o]' --hotkey='o if cryptomount "${dev}" ; then break ; fi done set pager=1 - echo # Insert newline + echo -# Retry lvm volumes, because after cryptomount, they might now be exposed - -# 3) LVM inside LUKS containers + # after cryptomount, lvm volumes might be available for vol in ${lvmvol}; do try_user_config "${vol}" done -# 4) encrypted devices/partitions search_grub crypto -# TODO: generalize last resorts -# Use first connected device? not just sata port 1 - # Last resort, if all else fails set root=ahci0,1 for p in / /boot/; do -- cgit v1.2.1