A new dracut module kiwi-repart used to be the successor of
the custom kiwi oemboot code to repartition the disk has
been added. Along with the module a dracut library kiwi-lib
will also be delivered.
The type attribute force_mbr allows to convert a system selected
for use with a GPT to use an MBR (msdos table). The attribute
only takes effect on image configurations which would select the
GPT partitioner. This Fixes#236
The vboot firmware setup was a workaround on arm for the
chromebook platform several years ago. From a todays
perspective the setup and the way to boot would be different
and obsoletes the special case implementation. Thus this
is gone now. Related to Issue #234
overlay disk images uses a readonly root partition and are
overlayed using overlayfs to hook in a cow based read-write
space. This commit implements the basic disk setup.
Implementation to boot such a disk in the kiwi boot code
is still missing, as well as the investigation if dracut
is able to boot such a disk too. References #65
For the partition setup the Disk class uses dictionaries
to map the partition name to the partition number. However
there are public partition names such as 'kiwi_BootPart'
and kiwi internal partition names such as 'boot'. The code
should make it more clear which mapping table is used
Triggered by the firmware="vboot" setup an EFI setup plus a
raw partition without filesystem is created as first partition.
The size of the partition can be controlled by the vbootsize
attribute. The vboot feature is used by the arm architecture
to provide a space in the partition table for custom code as
required by e.g the chromebook. The final customization of the
vboot space is board specific and can't be implemented in a
generic way in kiwi. For finalizing the vboot space the script
hooks editbootconfig and editbootinstall can be used
This is related to Issue #17
This makes it explicit for what purpose the partition
is really used. EFI is not configured the same for all
architectures but what is consistent is that on this
partition an efi image is located to become loaded by
some firmware
Embedding an MBR into a GPT is required for a collection of
boards, e.g arm rapberry PI. The kiwi configuration provides
a new attribute called
<type ... gpt_hybrid_mbr="true|false"
which allows to control if the GPT should be hybrid or not.
On build procedures which do not create a GPT the attribute
has no effect. This references Issue #17
nose is no longer maintained, thus we have to move to another
testing system. This commit updates the tox setup and all tests
to use pytest instead of nose.
