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Feature #19556

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Ship a package with basic bootloaders

Added by Lukas Zapletal almost 7 years ago. Updated almost 7 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Category:
Packaging
Target version:
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Description

Users are constantly hitting issues when trying to find and extract Grub1 and Grub2 bootloaders from distributions. Common errors:

  • They get incompatible version, e.g. Grub1 putting it into Grub2 directory and vice versa.
  • They don't get shim.efi loader in order to support SecureBoot.
  • They download and install unsigned Grub loader from Debian which will not work with SecureBoot.

I created new project https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-bootloaders which will hold bootloaders binaries from RHEL, CentOS and Fedora on the most common architectures x86_64, i386, arm64, ia64 and ppc64. Simply installing this package will deploy all required files including shim SecureBoot chainloaders. Naming conventions for the package names will be:

foreman-bootloaders-redhat-201611151337

Where "redhat" is the distribution it was taken from and 201611151337 is current date and time when these were extracted from the most current stable version of the distribution.


Related issues 1 (0 open1 closed)

Related to Foreman - Refactor #19632: SecureBoot support for non-intel architecturesClosedLukas Zapletal05/23/2017Actions
Actions #1

Updated by Marek Hulán almost 7 years ago

  • Target version set to 1.13.4
Actions #2

Updated by Lukas Zapletal almost 7 years ago

  • Assignee set to Lukas Zapletal
Actions #3

Updated by Lukas Zapletal almost 7 years ago

  • Related to Refactor #19632: SecureBoot support for non-intel architectures added
Actions #4

Updated by Lukas Zapletal almost 7 years ago

  • Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-packaging/pull/1656 added
Actions #5

Updated by The Foreman Bot almost 7 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Ready For Testing
Actions #6

Updated by Marek Hulán almost 7 years ago

  • Target version changed from 1.13.4 to 1.14.0
Actions #7

Updated by Anonymous almost 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Ready For Testing to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
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