This uses our new GRUB2 features to handle GPT priority partition
selection, terminal selection, OEM tweaks, etc. The old SYSLINUX and
PV-GRUB configs are now unused except for maintaining compatibility
with older installs. Of the old configs only the ones that
coreos-postinst copies are needed. The new setup supports using GRUB2
under Xen, giving us automatic fallback support on all of our platforms
for the very first time!
Since grub.cfg is copied into place instead of generated, build_image's
--boot_args option is no longer supported. It could be re-added later
with some sed goo but for now it is easy enough to just edit grub.cfg.
Mark the initial copy of CoreOS as 'successful' and with a non-zero
priority. Required to boot with a stricter interpretation of the
partition selection scheme which ignores partitions that have a priority
of zero. The new grub implementation follows this rule and is what the
original ChromeOS spec used too.
For the sake of completeness if multiple partitions are configured in
the json file with this feature they will be prioritized in disk-order.
The VHD format actually uses 2MB blocks internally so the 1MB alignment
used in e77e4e54 wasn't sufficent to prevent other tools from further
adjusting the image size to align it. Additionally a 1MB alignment may
be triggering a bug in OpenStack or XenServer disk resizing that renders
that partial block at the end of the old image size unmapped/unavailabe.
So far the default iteration order of python dicts has mostly matched
the order that we want the partitions on disk but this is not always the
case. I caught the BIOS-BOOT partition being ordered on disk after the
USR-A partition. Nothing bad came of this but consistancy is good.
The new disk size alignment left too much extra space at the end of the
disk which would lead to pointless resizing on first boot. Fill in the
extra space so that no more than 1MB is left unused.
The VHD disk format internally includes CHS addressing and qemu-img
respectfully aligns disk images to the common 16 heads 63 sectors
geometry when possible. This is unfortunate since images uploaded to
Azure must also be aligned to 1MB we normally do.
Since qemu-img doesn't have a way to handle this well right now adjust
our existing alignment logic to create disk images aligned to both.
I am unsure exactly what situation is causing the loopback partition
device node to not exist when it is being mounted but this should help
work around the situation and log loudly about it so we can hopefully
figure out where to dig further.
