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Grub [ uses "-a", not "&&".
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per layout from MR #199 discussion.
under "Advanced install options" we have:
- Graphical installer
- Text installer
- Graphical installer with dark theme
- Text installer with dark theme
- Installer with speech synthesis
under each of these we have a set of:
- Install
- Expert install
- Automated install
- Rescue mode
note that the 'automated' entries are moved up before the 'rescue' entries.
for hotkeys, the four entries above have hotkeys of 'i', 'x', 'a', and 'r'
respectively. ('x' is used instead of 'e' to avoid clash with standard
grub hotkey). this means that some entries that previous had no hotkeys
due to the flat list now have them. the other big difference is the main
graphical install entry going from 'g' to 'i' for consistency and the main
speech synth entry going from 's' to 'i' for the same reason.
furthermore, in the level above we have 'g' for normal graphical, 't' for
normal text install, 's' for speech synth, 'd' for graphical dark mode,
and 'k' for text dark mode.
the text-only sets are identical to the graphical ones except only for
dropping the graphical groups, simplifying maintenance, bringing clarity
to users of images (who may not have even made the image) that the set is
text-only, and keeping consistent hotkeys between graphical and text-only.
a 'start installer with speech synthesis' entry shortcut has been placed
at the top menu level alongside the 'start installer' shortcut.
Gbp-Dch: Short
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following official install discs.
i've not bothered to update grub-legacy this time.
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following the presence of them in the official install discs.
also drops unnecessary word "graphical" from existing speech
synth entry, following official Debian install discs.
i've not bothered to update grub-legacy this time.
Gbp-Dch: Short
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the default grub config has a quirk of using the syslinux splash when
present, which as a sidenote i believe is because only the syslinux script
has the code for converting an SVG (i've not researched to confirm).
the problem is that the default splash is such, with the text listing
package versions used, that this overlaps with the menu title in grub.
i've tweaked the "built on" and package details text to reduce its size
(bumped the line-height up slightly though) to avoid the overlap.
this was a pain in the *** to get done. inkscape likes to crash at the
slightest little thing like clicking on interface controls; each time it
saves it seems to swap a bunch of stuff in the file which can make a
hugely messy diff, i had to save, close, open, change, undo, and save
again, just to get a sain diff; and numerous times testing different sizes
and such in actual builds (rather than separate conversions) some of the
package detail lines would for some unknown reason decide to end up on the
same line as another, wth...
anyway, i've finally managed to get a new revision successfully created
and it seems bug free wrt. that same line issue to me, both converting
outside of live-build (in my sid host), and within a buster build. the size
of the text changed seems closer to the size of the actual menu entries
(there's no need for it to be bigger), and now is nicely clear of the menu
title.
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opening the file in inkscape resulted in a dialog explaining that inkscape
used to work on a 90 DPI basis but switched to 96 DPI for better
compatibility reasons, and wanted to convert the file.
this is simply the result of it having done the conversion.
it advised that for documents not intended to be printed that there should
be no noticeable difference. i checked the output and it seems identical
to before. i tried to look at the actual diff, but it's a lot of noise,
most of which is just reordering, and i gave up, since the output looks
identical i'm not going to worry.
Gbp-Dch: Ignore
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more fitting now that we've moved the advanced installer entries
out to a different submenu, leaving just memtest (and HDT on
syslinux).
the advanced.cfg file is also renamed to utilities.cfg in the syslinux
case, but in a backwards compatible way of moving the user advanced.cfg
file over the new one, if the user provides a file with the old name.
alternatively we could just leave the old name in place, but that would be
a little odd.
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- most entries used vga=788 rather than vga=normal (which are equivalent)
- the syslinux menu uses 788 exclusively
- so do the official install discs
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as per style in official Debian install discs
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also enables greater flexibility for users to override more aspects of
theme separate from menu entries, and similarly the initial config details
separate from the menu entries. (with the recent change to merge user files
with the defaults rather than replace them, users can pick which of these
individual components they wish to customise.
identical to change as sent in to Kali and accepted by Raphaël.
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partly lost in some adjustments that were made to the submitted work,
which was focused on restoring the 'start installer' entry.
there is no need for dynamic setting of these two `source` imports in the
default file, in fact user modifications should also use the fixed import
commands in future.
note that the old placeholders however remain replaced, which inject
precisely this string, for backwards compatibility.
Gbp-Dch: Ignore
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there are several files of which identical duplicate copies are held in:
- share/bootloaders/extlinux
- share/bootloaders/pxelinux
- share/bootloaders/isolinux
- share/bootloaders/syslinux
it is a pain to maintain this from a development standpoint, having to
copy modified config files into the other directories each time changes
are made and mistakes have been made before due to this.
this creates a new folder share/bootloaders/syslinux_common and moves them
to this new directory.
it also expands the binary_syslinux stage to use it, with it now
constructing the installed set of bootloader files as follows:
1. copy {LB_DIR}/bootloaders/syslinux_common
2. copy {LB_DIR}/bootloaders/{syslinux|isolinux|extlinux|pxelinux} on top
3. copy config/bootloaders/syslinux_common on top
4. copy config/bootloaders/{syslinux|isolinux|extlinux|pxelinux} on top
note, to explain part of the binary_syslinux change, instead of just
copying the correct bootloader folder full of the files, we now make the
target bootloader specific directory, then copy the contents of source
directories into it.
Gbp-Dch: Short
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* Use same menu labels
* Use same hotkeys
* Get rid of a nested menu that is not present in grub
* Add "menu title" statement to hide the caret of the hotkey (^)
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0bf9d2d390e2d031ebe344050d8766ba7cd9ad54 expanded the set of install
options, whilst also moving them all to a submenu.
it has since been raised that this is not actually what is wanted, that
having an entry for the most common install option is wanted at the top
level, like currently with grub2.
this adds such an entry.
Gbp-Dch: Short
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for some reason the syslinux folder one had these but not the others.
probably a result of having four separate copies of the files and this
part of the past change to expand the install menus failed to be
duplicated.
Gbp-Dch: Short
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enabling improved flexibility for any possible future
path changes.
Gbp-Dch: Ignore
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don't include the advanced menu at all if it's only entry - memtest - is
not included (you just get a menu entry that does nothing, which may
confused users into thinking that something is broken, as opposed to
showing an empty submenu as i expected).
Gbp-Dch: Short
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backwards compatibility:
1. the new file will be included alongside any user custom config
2. rather than replace MEMTEST with an actual config entry, we replace it
with a line to import the content of the new file, and thus will work
just as before.
thus no backwards compatible breakage
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backwards compatibility:
1. the new install.cfg and install_start.cfg files (chosen
automatically from the install_*gui.cfg and install_*test.cfg
files) will be included alongside any user custom config.
2. the placeholders are now replaced with lines importing these files
thus everything will work just as before, i.e. no backwards
compatibility breakage.
Gbp-Dch: Short
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this takes a step forward in moving towards the same updated layout as
with syslinux; here we get:
- <live entries>
- Start installer
- Advanced install options...
- <full set of install options>
- Advanced options...
- Memory Diagnostic Tool (memtest86[+])
note that this only affects the default menu. custom configs are not
affected by this change.
further steps to complete the move to the updated layout will follow
later.
"Advanced options..." should perhaps be renamed later.
Gbp-Dch: Short
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...for consistency with syslinux config placeholders and improved
clarity of what text is a placeholder.
the old placeholders without the bookends are still replaced for
user configs for backwards compatibility.
the new ones are little used just at the moment but are expected to
become used much more in later commits.
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this reverts commit 0cef87ffca0e9d89ac1f8e0098f890f2eefd3559 though
retaining the 'advanced options' menu entry using a label rather than a
title.
despite having done a lot of testing back in 2015 with my bootloader
improvements, i notice now that in fact the syslinux caret fix has an
undesired side effect of modifying the title displayed above the menus. it
does not help that the text embedded into the splash overlaps with this
menu title; perhaps this explains why i missed this problem back in 2015.
purely reverting the implemented fix solves this title problem, but
restores the caret problem to the advanced options menu (in menu.cfg);
however that menu was using a caret in a title entry, unlike everywhere
else where they are only used with labels, which must have been the
original source of the problem all along. ensuring that this menu uses a
label instead of a title in this reversion leaves everything working
correctly afaict.
Gbp-Dch: Ignore
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d-i removed this in commit 0917b2dde3ff73a204d27dd2f2fffc8a41175ddd
Note: There was inconsistency between grub and syslinux in use of this, with
syslinux not having it on graphical rescue and auto modes while grub entries
did. The patch to fix that has been dropped since we're removing it everywhere
anyway.
(#395040)
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Fixes the following
- Correct version (memtest86/memtest86+) shown instead of fixed 'memtest86+' text
- Ensure correct directory path always used by using replaceable placeholder
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Following the official Debian install disks
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Appears before a timestamp which reflects when the image was built, so 'built' is more correct than 'build' here.
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also fixes the mistaken assignment of the same shortcut for both
entries in live.cfg.in
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Current splash makes it very difficult to read menu entries.
Black as a background color is actually interpreted as transparent,
so switching to something else so the highlighted menu entry can be
read more easily.
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LB_DEBIAN_INSTALLER_GUI defines whether or not to provide the graphical
installer. the installer_debian-installer script pays attention to it and
does not download it if not wanted. the actual bootloaders however
(both grub2/loopback and syslinux) ignore it, which leaves broken and
unwanted menu entries. this fixes that.
Gbp-Dch: Short
Closes: #952890
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debian-cd changed it that way, we already have it that way in EFI
boot, let's be consistent.
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Since syslinux 5.00, this file is installed into the disk root by the
extlinux and syslinux installer commands. For pxelinux and isolinux,
these files still need to be added manually. This is documented at:
https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Library_modules#All_Syslinux_variants_need_an_additional_ldlinux_module
Keeping these unused files around is probably only confusing, so better
to remove them.
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Thanks to Daniel Reichelt <debian@nachtgeist.net> for the patch.
Closes: #864386
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grub-pc configuration.
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* Use only long kernel names.
* Put advanced options in a submenu.
* Use distro-agnostic labels.
* Don't generate entries with kernel version when we have a single
version.
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picture.
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They are required for the "Hardware Detection Tool (HDT)" menu entry that
live-build adds in the advanced menu.
Sponsored-by: Offensive Security
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