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diff --git a/src/property/disk.lisp b/src/property/disk.lisp index 7a9654a..077fb1d 100644 --- a/src/property/disk.lisp +++ b/src/property/disk.lisp @@ -49,7 +49,17 @@ The special value :REMAINING means all remaining free space in the volume containing this one. If a larger size is required to accommodate the VOLUME-CONTENTS of the volume -plus any metadata (e.g. partition tables), this value will be ignored.")) +plus any metadata (e.g. partition tables), this value will be ignored.") + (volume-bootloader + :type list :initarg :boots-with :accessor volume-bootloader + :documentation + "List specifying a bootloader to be installed to this volume. The first +element is a symbol identifying the type of bootloader, and the remaining +elements are a plist of keyword arguments to be passed to the implementation +of INSTALLER:INSTALL-BOOTLOADER for that bootloader type. + +Typically only the top level PHYSICAL-DISK of a host's volumes will have this +slot bound.")) (:documentation "Something which contains filesystems and/or other volumes.")) @@ -788,6 +798,16 @@ filesystems stored on other physical disks would normally be mounted. OPTIONS will be passed on to CHROOT:OS-BOOTSTRAPPED-FOR, which see. +In most cases you will need to ensure that HOST has properties which do at +least the following: + + - declare the host's OS + + - install a kernel + + - install the binaries/packages needed to install the host's bootloader to + its volumes (usually with INSTALLER:BOOTLOADER-BINARIES-INSTALLED). + Unless REBUILD, the image will not be repartitioned even if the specification of the host's volumes changes, although the contents of the image's filesystems will be incrementally updated when other properties change." |