Menu isn't centered in image generated via generate-zbm?

[Soulsuke]

Hello everyone,

I'm having this weird issue where the EFI file generated via generate-zbm has its greeting menu (the 'press enter or excape' one) appears on the top-left corner of the screen instead of the center.

This doesn't seem to happen in released EFIs, so I'm wondering if there are some extra configuration parameters to use or if I'm missing something (I couldn't find anything relevant in the docs).

I'm on Arch Linux, and the only changes I've made to /etc/zfsbootmenu/config.yaml are setting ManageImages to true, disabling Components and Enabling EFI.

Anyone can give some advice??

[zdykstra]

What version of ZFSBootMenu are you building? When you run zreport from the recovery shell, what hooks are listed as enabled?

[Soulsuke]

Sorry, I completely forgot to add the info!

I'm using the AUR package which points to 2.3.0.

Running zreport on the working version (which was still 2.2.0) shows no mention of hooks. Running it on the version I've built via generate-zbm shows:

• early-setup.d/10-console-init.sh
• early-setup.d/20-console-autorise.sh
• teardown.d/90-xhcl-unbind.sh

For the record, I'm not using the released .EFI due to some features in openzfs 2.3.0 being not supported.

Using the recovery shell also uncovered another issue: the keymap isn't correctly set. I'm using the following efi entry, and it works correctly on the official release:

Boot0000* ZFSBootMenu HD(1,GPT,e64c07e9-c498-4b70-9f8b-4413c8f09bd7,0x800,0x1ff800)/\EFI\zbm\zfsbootmenu.EFIspl.spl_hostid=0x007f0101 zbm.timeout=10 zbm.prefer=zroot zbm.import_policy=hostid rd.vconsole.keymap=it rd.vconsole.font=lat2-16 quiet

Am I missing something trivial??

EDIT: tried again with ZBM 2.3.0 release's .EFI. The menu screen is correctly centered, and the same hooks i mentioned above are listed.

[zdykstra]

early-setup.d/10-console-init.sh is a Dracut-only hook, but it's what actually triggers the resize of a screen. Our release binaries are built with Dracut as the framework, which is why you're seeing different behavior. What you can try to do is create a new hook that has +x set on it with the following contents:

#!/bin/bash
echo -e "\033[0;30m ... \033[0m"

It's fine to call it 11-console-init.sh. If that works as expected (e.g. shows up in the list of hooks, and your menus are centered), I'll revamp the logic in 10-console-init.sh to better work under mkinitcpio.

[Soulsuke]

Thanks, it definitely works as expected: the menu is centered and the hook correctly appears in zreport!

The only remaining difference is the parameters in the keymap parameter in the efi entry which still doesn't get applied (rd.vconsole.keymap=it) which works with the release Scratch that, I forgot to add the keymap hook in /etc/zfsbootmenu/mkinitcpio.conf, my bad! Everything now works as expected

[zdykstra]

Thanks for the confirmation. I'll rework the hook to be framework agnostic for that step.

[Soulsuke]

Thank you for your help and your dedication to this project!

[zdykstra]

#707 - once that's merged, it'll be part of the soon-to-be-released ZFSBootMenu 3.0.0 (with ZFS 2.3.0)

[Soulsuke]

I'll add it here not to flood with questions... Would it maybe be worth setting the keymap hook by default in mkinitcpio.conf after the keyboard? Just to have the same behaviour between dracut and mkinitcpio images