3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Olivier Mengué
772c0a9421 packer: move call to unix.Sync behind Linux conditional compile (#84)
In RereadPartitions, move call to unix.Sync() in Linux specific code
as unix.Sync() is not portable (not available on Windows).
2025-02-21 20:39:03 +01:00
Michael Stapelberg
0721be4715 move (*os.File).Sync() call into linux-specific packer_linux.go
This fixes the following error on macOS:

sync /dev/disk2: inappropriate ioctl for device

related to https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy/issues/22
2022-03-01 18:04:43 +01:00
Michael Stapelberg
bea67498b5 Switch to GPT partition tables, add systemd-boot for UEFI boot
This is useful for running gokrazy on PC platforms (e.g. for
https://router7.org/), where the first systems without legacy BIOS support are
starting to ship.

The existing boot methods (Legacy BIOS MBR boot, Raspberry Pi) are unaffected by
this change and keep working.

Regardless of the bootloader (BIOS, UEFI, Raspberry Pi), we now use a GPT
partition table with hybrid MBR (= protective MBR + FAT32 /boot partition
which the Raspberry Pi bootloader requires).

This change should have no effect on existing installations.

To switch to GPT, you’ll need to use the -overwrite= flag to partition the
device (e.g. SD card). If you want to keep your /perm partition, you’ll need to
shrink the file system (using resize2fs) by 1 MB to make space for the secondary
GPT partition table copy at the end of the device.

Previously, the partition *table* contained a UUID that we used as root=
parameter for the Linux kernel, e.g. root=PARTUUID=471cad93-03

Now, individual partitions (not the partition *table*) have a UUID that begins
with 60c24cc1-f3f9-427a-8199,
e.g. root=PARTUUID=60c24cc1-f3f9-427a-8199-2e18c40c0004

fixes https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy/issues/87
2021-06-24 13:52:55 +02:00