-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
$CFG::genisoimage = "genisoimage";
$CFG::qemu = 'qemu-system-i386 -cpu coreduo -smp 2';
$CFG::default_target = '';
+$CFG::netif = 'eth0';
%CFG::targets = (
'qemu' => '--qemu',
"tud" => '--server=erwin.inf.tu-dresden.de:~sojka/boot/novaboot --rsync-flags="--chmod=Dg+s,ug+w,o-w,+rX --rsync-path=\"umask 002 && rsync\"" --grub --grub-prefix=(nd)/tftpboot/sojka/novaboot --grub-preamble="timeout 0" --concat --iprelay=141.76.48.80:2324 --scriptmod=s/\\\\bhostserial\\\\b/hostserialpci/g',
$reset = 1; # Reset target by default
$interaction = 1; # Perform target interaction by default
$final_eol = 1;
-$netif = 'eth0';
+$netif = $CFG::netif;
$remote_expect_timeout = -1;
my @expect_seen = ();
if (-f '/usr/lib/ISOLINUX/isolinux.bin') {
# Newer ISOLINUX version
@files = qw(/usr/lib/ISOLINUX/isolinux.bin /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/mboot.c32 /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/libcom32.c32 /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/menu.c32 /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/ldlinux.c32);
- } else {
+ } elsif (-f '/usr/lib/syslinux/isolinux.bin') {
# Older ISOLINUX version
@files = qw(/usr/lib/syslinux/isolinux.bin /usr/lib/syslinux/mboot.c32 /usr/lib/syslinux/menu.c32);
+ } else {
+ # NixOS and maybe others
+ my $syslinux = `which syslinux` || die "Cannot find syslinux";
+ chomp $syslinux;
+ $syslinux =~ s,/bin/syslinux$,,;
+ @files = ("$syslinux/share/syslinux/isolinux.bin", "$syslinux/share/syslinux/mboot.c32", "$syslinux/share/syslinux/libcom32.c32", "$syslinux/share/syslinux/menu.c32", "$syslinux/share/syslinux/ldlinux.c32");
}
- system_verbose("cp @files isolinux");
+ system_verbose("cp @files isolinux && chmod +w isolinux/*");
open(my $fh, ">isolinux/isolinux.cfg");
if ($#scripts) {
print $fh "TIMEOUT 50\n";
print STDERR "novaboot: Serial line interaction (press $interrupt to interrupt)...\n";
$exp->log_stdout(1);
if (@exiton) {
- $exp->expect($exiton_timeout, @expect_raw, @exiton) || die("exiton: " . ($! || "timeout"));
+ $exp->expect($exiton_timeout, @exiton, @expect_raw) || die("exiton: " . ($! || "timeout"));
} else {
my @inputs = ($exp);
my $infile = new IO::File;
=back
-=head1 PHASES AND OPTIONS
+=head1 OPTIONS AND PHASES
Novaboot performs its work in several phases. Command line options
described bellow influence the execution of each phase or allow their
=item --netif=I<network interface>
-Network interface used to deploy files to the target. The default value is
-I<eth0>. This option influences the configuration of the DHCP server started
-by B<--dhcp-tftp> and the value that B<$NB_MYIP> get replaced with during
-U-Boot conversation.
+Network interface used to deploy files to the target. This option
+influences the configuration of the DHCP server started by
+B<--dhcp-tftp> and the value that B<$NB_MYIP> get replaced with during
+U-Boot conversation. The default value is C<$netif> variable from
+configuration files, which defaults to I<eth0>.
=item --iso[=filename]
(see B<--build-dir>) of the module to load and the remaining words are
passed to it as the command line parameters.
+When booting Linux, the first C<load> line usually refers to the
+kernel image and its command line parameters (unless you use some
+special pre-loader). Other C<load> lines may refer to an initramfs
+image and/or a device tree blob. Their order is not important, as the
+device tree is recognized as the file name ending with C<.dtb>.
+
When the C<load> line ends with "<<WORD" then the subsequent lines
until the line containing solely WORD are copied literally to the file
-named on that line. This is similar to shell's heredoc feature.
+named on that line. This is similar to the heredoc feature of UNIX
+shells.
When the C<load> line ends with "< CMD" then command CMD is executed
with F</bin/sh> and its standard output is stored in the file named on
specified with the B<--target> command line option or
B<NOVABOOT_TARGET> environment variable.
+=item $netif
+
+Default value for the B<--netif> option. If not specified, it defaults
+to I<eth0>.
+
=item %targets
Hash of target definitions to be used with the B<--target> option. The