GRUB¶
The grub boot method is used to boot a device using the configured grub boot
commands in device type or job definition.
yaml
- boot:
method: grub
commands: ramdisk
prompts:
- 'root@debian:~#'
timeout:
minutes: 5
commands¶
See commands.
use_bootscript¶
See use_bootscript.
reset¶
Defaults to true. When false, LAVA will not reset the device at the start
of the boot action.
This can be used when the device has already been booted into the bootloader by a previous action.
yaml
- boot:
method: grub
commands: ramdisk
reset: false
boot_finished¶
A string or list of strings that LAVA will wait for when no prompts are set.
This can be used with an OS installer that does not present a login prompt.
After the string is matched the device is powered off.
yaml
- boot:
method: grub
commands: ramdisk
boot_finished:
- 'Installation complete'
- 'reboot: Restarting system'
Example job¶
```yaml job_name: 'ampereone grub boot example job' device_type: ampereone
priority: medium visibility: public
timeouts: actions: finalize: seconds: 60 power-off: seconds: 60 connection: minutes: 2 job: minutes: 65 queue: hours: 72
context: extra_kernel_args: ' rw'
actions: - deploy: to: tftp kernel: compression: gz type: image url: https://example.com/Image.gz nfsrootfs: compression: xz format: tar overlays: modules: compression: xz format: tar path: /usr/ url: https://example.com/modules.tar.xz overlay-00: compression: xz format: tar path: / url: https://storage.tuxboot.com/overlays/debian/trixie/arm64/ltp/master/ltp.tar.xz url: https://storage.tuxboot.com/debian/20250722/trixie/arm64/rootfs.tar.xz os: debian timeout: minutes: 30
-
boot: method: grub commands: nfs auto_login: login_prompt: 'login:' username: root prompts:
- root@(.*):[/~]#
- '/ #' timeout: minutes: 30
-
test: definitions:
- from: inline
name: prep-inline
path: inline/prep.yaml
repository:
metadata:
description: Device preparation
format: Lava-Test Test Definition 1.0
name: prep-tests
run:
steps:
- export STORAGE_DEV=/dev/nvme0n1p2
- mkfs.ext4 -F "$STORAGE_DEV" || lava-test-raise "mkfs.ext4 $STORAGE_DEV failed; job exit"
- mkdir -p /scratch && mount "$STORAGE_DEV" /scratch || lava-test-raise "mount $STORAGE_DEV failed; job exit"
- df -h
- mount timeout: minutes: 5
- from: inline
name: prep-inline
path: inline/prep.yaml
repository:
metadata:
description: Device preparation
format: Lava-Test Test Definition 1.0
name: prep-tests
run:
steps:
-
test: definitions:
- compression: zstd from: url lava-signal: kmsg name: ltp-smoke parameters: ENVIRONMENT: production KIRK_WORKERS: 1 LTP_INSTALL_PATH: /opt/ltp/ LTP_TMPDIR: /scratch RUNNER: kirk SHARD_INDEX: 1 SHARD_NUMBER: 1 SKIPFILE: skipfile-lkft.yaml SKIP_INSTALL: 'true' TIMEOUT_MULTIPLIER: 5 TST_CMDFILES: smoketest path: automated/linux/ltp/ltp.yaml repository: https://github.com/Linaro/test-definitions/releases/download/2025.10.01/2025.10.tar.zst timeout: minutes: 5 ```