no-GUI is now just the normal entry minus the GUI: bee.gui=off with
bee.nvidia.mode=normal (drops the previous gsp-off/pci=realloc it had picked
up). fail-safe is now simply the GPU/PCIe-workaround boot —
bee.nvidia.mode=gsp-off pci=realloc iommu=pt over the standard base — instead
of the old noapic/nodma/nomce/nolapic/nosmp minimal mode, so it can actually
run GPU tests (nvbandwidth) to verify the iommu=pt half of the vendor fix.
Applied identically across all four sources (grub.cfg + live.cfg.in templates
and build.sh write_canonical_* generators).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The GRUB and isolinux menus (and their two sources of truth — the staged
templates and build.sh's write_canonical_* generators that rewrite the built
menu) had drifted: GRUB shipped a lean set, isolinux carried extra
display-debug entries (gsp-off, kms, kms-gsp-off) and lacked a WIPE entry in
the canonical writer. Collapse all four to one set:
normal, load-to-RAM (default), no-GUI/troubleshooting (gsp-off, pci=realloc),
fail-safe, WIPE ALL DISKS, Memory Test, + UEFI Firmware Settings (EFI only)
The fail-safe entry gains iommu=pt (AMD-Vi passthrough) — the OS-side half of
the vendor fix for the MSI CG480-S6053 cross-socket nvbandwidth reboot; ACS
can't be toggled from a stock-kernel cmdline so that stays a BIOS setting.
default stays index 1 = toram (config.cfg set default=1).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pci=realloc was forcing a full PCI resource reallocation on every default
and toram boot, added as a GPU BAR workaround for BIOS without Above 4G
Decoding. On a dense NVMe-backplane server it exhausted MMIO32 space and
silently dropped 4 of 6 NVMe controllers from the OS even though the BIOS
and lspci both saw them fine. It now only applies to the no-GUI/gsp-off
troubleshooting entry, alongside a bible-local ADR for the two prior
rounds of SAT/blackbox durability work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a "WIPE ALL DISKS" entry to both GRUB and isolinux menus (bee.wipe=all).
Includes bee-wipe-disks for manual use from a running live system.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Convert bee-logo.png to RGBA (color type 6) and strip all metadata
chunks (cHRM, bKGD, tIME, tEXt) that confuse GRUB's minimal PNG parser
- Move terminal_output gfxterm before insmod png / theme load so the
theme initialises in an active gfxterm context
- Remove echo ASCII art banner from grub.cfg — with gfxterm active and
no terminal_box in the theme, echo output renders over the menu area
- Fix icon_heigh typo → icon_height; increase item_height 16→20 with
item_padding 0→2 for reliable text rendering in boot_menu
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Default and toram entries now boot with bee.display=kms (ASPEED AST
loads via KMS, Xorg uses modesetting driver) and pci=realloc (Linux
reassigns GPU BARs when BIOS lacks Above 4G Decoding). nomodeset
removed from these entries; still present in GSP=off and fail-safe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Em-dash (U+2014) renders as garbage on GRUB serial/SOL output
(IPMI BMC consoles). Replace with ASCII double-hyphen throughout
grub.cfg template, write_canonical_grub_cfg, and theme.txt comment.
Also align template grub.cfg structure with write_canonical_grub_cfg:
toram entry moved to top level (was inside submenu).
bible: add ascii-safe-text contract documenting the no-em-dash rule.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
grub-efi/grub.cfg: add KMS+GSP=off entry (was in isolinux, missing in GRUB)
isolinux/live.cfg.in: add full standard param set to all entries
(net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 mitigations=off transparent_hugepage=always
numa_balancing=disable nowatchdog nosoftlockup) to match grub-efi
bible-local/docs/iso-build-rules.md: add bootloader sync rule documenting
that grub-efi and isolinux must be kept in sync manually, listing canonical
entries and standard param set, and noting the grub-pc/grub-efi history.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Build uses --bootloaders "grub-efi,syslinux" so live-build reads
config/bootloaders/grub-efi/ for the UEFI GRUB config. The directory
was incorrectly named grub-pc, causing live-build to ignore our custom
grub.cfg and generate a default one (missing toram, GSP-off entries).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mchusandClaude Opus 4.8