Re: Adding systemd-boot support in debian-installer
On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 at 02:12, Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 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
>
> A couple of PRs for minimal support:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer-utils/-/merge_requests/12
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/d-i/-/merge_requests/17
> 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?
FYI I have just uploaded systemd-boot-installer/0.9, thanks to Steve's
for uploading shim-signed/1.45 so now the installer option also pulls
in shim-signed on amd64/arm64 in order to get secure boot to work out
of the box. Tested on qemu, works nicely.
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