setup.sh

@@ -41,6 +41,54 @@ function install_pkgs () {
     pacman -S --needed --noconfirm "${@}"
 }
 
+function prepare_zfsbootmenu_efi_bin_pkg () {
+    # Our Arch Linux will use prebuilt ZFSBootMenu UEFI image files for ease
+    # of use. We'd like to install them from within our chroot but the AUR
+    # package 'zfsbootmenu-efi-bin' that we're using currently (Friday,
+    # October 20, 2023) identifies its target EFI system partition (ESP) by
+    # doing 'lsblk' and checking the partition type name. Since within
+    # arch-chroot there's no '/run/udev' but only an empty '/run' tmpfs
+    # 'lsblk' cannot see partition type names and some other pieces of info.
+    #
+    # See also
+    # https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/arch-install-scripts/-/issues/24
+    #
+    # Thus within arch-chroot the installation of 'zfsbootmenu-efi-bin' and
+    # even 'makepkg -s' fails. We build the package in our Arch Linux live
+    # CD ISO image and copy the resulting file into our chroot.
+    #
+    # We circle back to the package file when we chroot into Arch and
+    # install_zbm_image().
+    pacman_cache_dir='/var/cache/pacman/pkg'
+    chroot_pacman_cache_dir='/mnt'"${pacman_cache_dir}"
+    git_zbm_efi_bin_dir='/tmp/zfsbootmenu-efi-bin'
+    sudo -u 'arch' git -C '/tmp' clone 'https://aur.archlinux.org/zfsbootmenu-efi-bin.git'
+
+    # We briefly bind-mount our ESP into '/efi' before we build the package.
+    # Its PKGBUILD will then find the ESP at the correct location and write
+    # a package file with that internal location ('/efi').
+    mkdir -p '/efi'
+    mount --bind '/mnt/efi' '/efi'
+    pushd "${git_zbm_efi_bin_dir}"
+    sudo -u 'arch' makepkg -s || {
+        printf -- '%s\n' 'Failed building zfsbootmenu-efi-bin package. Exiting ...'
+        exit 77
+    }
+    popd
+    umount '/efi'
+    rmdir '/efi'
+
+    package_file_abs="$(find "${git_zbm_efi_bin_dir}" -type f -iname '*pkg.tar.zst')"
+    package_file="$(basename "${package_file_abs}")"
+    mkdir -p "${chroot_pacman_cache_dir}"
+    rsync -av "${package_file_abs}" "${chroot_pacman_cache_dir}"'/'"${package_file}" || {
+        printf -- '%s\n' 'Failed rsyncing zfsbootmenu-efi-bin package file into chroot. Exiting ...'
+        exit 77
+    }
+    export ZFSBOOTMENU_EFI_BIN_PKG_PATH="${pacman_cache_dir}"'/'"${package_file}"
+    rm -rf "${git_zbm_efi_bin_dir}"
+}
+
 function install_zfs () {
     #1.4
     declare reset_colors='\033[0m'
@@ -502,6 +550,15 @@ function paru_install () {
     fi
 }
 
+function install_zbm_image () {
+    # This takes image files written earlier in our Arch Linux live CD ISO
+    # image at prepare_zfsbootmenu_efi_bin_pkg() and installs them via their
+    # locally built package file. When done we delete the manually built
+    # package file from pacman's cache dir.
+    pacman -U "${ZFSBOOTMENU_EFI_BIN_PKG_PATH}" --noconfirm
+    rm "${ZFSBOOTMENU_EFI_BIN_PKG_PATH}"
+}
+
 function keep_initiramfs_root_only_rw () {
     declare systemd_local_admin_override_path unit_name
     systemd_local_admin_override_path='/etc/systemd/system'
@@ -571,15 +628,8 @@ function install_os_in_chroot () {
     source /etc/locale.conf
     mkinitcpio -P
 
-    # Install ZFSBootMenu and deps
+    # Install ZFSBootMenu image
-    git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/ '/tmp/zfsbootmenu'
+    install_zbm_image
-    paru_install 'cpanminus' 'kexec-tools' 'fzf' 'util-linux'
-    pushd '/tmp/zfsbootmenu'
-    make
-    make install
-    cpanm --notest --installdeps .
-    popd
-    rm -rf '/tmp/zfsbootmenu'
 }
 
 function set_root_pw () {
@@ -636,24 +686,6 @@ function configure_zfs_mount_gen () {
 
 function configure_zfsbootmenu () {
     #2.7
-    curl -s 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/master/etc/zfsbootmenu/mkinitcpio.conf' | sed -r -e '/^#/d' -e '/^$/d' > '/mnt/etc/zfsbootmenu/mkinitcpio.conf'
-    cat > '/mnt/etc/zfsbootmenu/config.yaml' <<EOF
-Global:
-  ManageImages: true
-  BootMountPoint: /efi
-  InitCPIO: true
-
-Components:
-  Enabled: false
-EFI:
-  ImageDir: /efi/EFI/ZBM
-  Versions: false
-  Enabled: true
-Kernel:
-  CommandLine: ro loglevel=0 zbm.import_policy=hostid
-  Prefix: vmlinuz
-EOF
-# Up here maybe 'ro quiet' instead of 'ro'
     zfs set org.zfsbootmenu:commandline='rw nowatchdog rd.vconsole.keymap=de-latin1' "${zpool_name}"'/root/'"${zfs_arch_dataset_name}"
 }
 
@@ -724,6 +756,7 @@ function main () {
         set_ntp                                 #1.1
         update_pacman_db                        #1.2
         install_pkgs 'base-devel' 'git' 'jq'    #1.3
+        prepare_zfsbootmenu_efi_bin_pkg
         install_zfs                             #1.4
         setup_zpool                             #1.4
         mount_system                            #1.5