bootloader

Installs grub[2] on boot partition on the system.

Arguments

  • DIB_GRUB_TIMEOUT sets the grub menu timeout. It defaults to 5 seconds. Set this to 0 (no timeout) for fast boot times.

  • DIB_GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE sets the visibility of the grub menu. It defaults to menu. Set this to hidden (or countdown as an alias) to not display the menu until the timeout is reached at which point the default boot entry will be selected.

  • DIB_BOOTLOADER_DEFAULT_CMDLINE sets parameters that are appended to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT values in grub.cfg configuration. It defaults to nofb nomodeset gfxpayload=text.

  • DIB_BOOTLOADER_USE_SERIAL_CONSOLE allows usage of a serial console to be disabled in the resulting image by setting to a value of False.

  • DIB_BOOTLOADER_SERIAL_CONSOLE sets the serial device to be used as a console. It defaults to hvc0 for PowerPC, ttyAMA0,115200 for ARM64, otherwise ttyS0,115200.

  • DIB_BOOTLOADER_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL sets the virtual terminal be used as a console. It defaults to tty0. When explicitly set to an empty string then no virtual terminal console kernel argument is added.

  • DIB_NO_TIMER_CHECK allows the default kernel argument, no_timer_check to be removed from the kernel command line when the value is set to False.

  • DIB_SKIP_GRUB_PACKAGE_INSTALL when set to True will not install any grub packages, and will assume all necessary packages are already installed.