Hi, Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> (2024-06-03): > I've created a udeb that adds an expert menu item to allow choosing > systemd-boot (in the NEW queue): > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/systemd-boot-installer The `Architecture: all` in control vs the 64-bit EFI logic in the script seems odd at first glance. Looking at other *-installer, they tend to have a restricted arch list in most cases. I have no strong feelings either way, just something that caught my eye when I first looked into the repository. > A couple of PRs for minimal support: > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer-utils/-/merge_requests/12 OK, spotted the todo in the script when I spotted the upload; a versioned dependency will do the trick once the d-i-utils part is reviewed/merged/uploaded. > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/d-i/-/merge_requests/17 TIL: builscript. ACK on the .mrconfig part, but I think this misses an addition to packages/po/packages_list (to be confirmed with Holger Wansing). Might be best to get rid of the fuzzy parts still mentioning nobootloader beforehand though. Just something that needs taken care of at some point. > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/merge_requests/46 > > It does not show up in non-expert mode, which is fine for now, > especially as secure boot signing is not yet available. > > After it's been in the testing image like this for a while, and after > we have secure boot integration finished up, would it be ok to show a > question in the non-expert install too? GRUB would still be the > default of course, the question would select it by default, and allow > to switch to sd-boot if chosen. Where would be the best place to add > this? I have close to no knowledge about the details around menu items at the moment. Looking at the good old GRUB vs. LILO duo, I see they had different numbers (7400 for GRUB, 7500 for LILO), not sure whether we should have the same numbers for grub-installer and for systemd-boot-installer. I'm also not sure whether we should offer a choice between those two different booting methods in the course of a normal (non-expert) install. Finally, I'm Cc-ing GRUB people to let them know. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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