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@Igor It did. Thank you. The final PR will be here: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/7216

Hi, Context systemd's cloud-init.target and armbian-firstrun.service will be started concurrently (both are wanted by multi-user.target). Both will try to create SSH host keys by default: - armbian-firstrun will always delete SSH host keys and then generate new ones - cloud-init.target (by default) will always delete SSH host keys and then generate new ones. Problem When one must run armbian-firstrun and cloud-init, there is no deterministic ordering between the 2 files execution and therefore no one can guarantee which will be last to setup host keys. In my current scenario, host keys are explicitly setup in cloud-init and I would expect armbian-firstrun to not delete keys + no ssh host key generation. Proposed Solution armbian-firstrun support user defined config to control SSH host keys deletion + generation: - on: ssh host key deleted + generated (compatibility: current armbian behaviour) - off: no ssh key deleted + no ssh host key generated. Allow cloud-init to take over this behaviour deterministically. Question I am seeking guidance on where the user config setting should be added. Then I can write the if/else condition in the armbian-firstrun script.

Preferred to ask as sometimes (but not an Armbian) maintainers are reluctant to increase the project's scope. Here it is: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6307

Hi community, Context I build my own custom Arabian image on arm 32bit (prod), and experimenting running the following armbian image configuration on Qemu with console/serial only support for uefi-x86 and uefi-arm64 boards to speed up development/test. Problem I stumble upon something odd: both "uefi-*" boards are configured to only run GRUB in gfxterm mode ONLY. BOARD: uefi-86 -> BOARDFAMILY="uefi-x86". -> UEFI_GRUB_TERMINAL="gfxterm" [0] BOARD: uefi-arm64 -> BOARDFAMILY="uefi-arm64". -> UEFI_GRUB_TERMINAL="gfxterm" [1] [0] https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/2afd8fe9bb8aca33a2a3913e931fc43c43c8e309/config/sources/families/uefi-x86.conf#L11 [1] https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/2afd8fe9bb8aca33a2a3913e931fc43c43c8e309/config/sources/families/uefi-arm64.conf#L10 Image built from these boards should be runnable as CLI image (no gui) or Desktop image (gui). However, when running with qemu -nographic ... these image can't boot up to a working shell and produce an error: "GRUB: gfxterm is not supported" Proposed change I would like to submit a patch to change UEFI_GRUB_TERMINAL to "gfxterm vga_text console serial" to cover a large set of virtualised hardware configurations. 1. Is this something you guys are interested in ? 2. Does this fix need more than the proposed change to achieve the desired objective ? Thanks