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remove variable that is not needed

replaced the awk script with tee-sort-head-cut magic

In z/VM environment
ECKD DASDs need to be low-level formatted with dasdfmt and fdasd before
use. These devices don't have partition ids.
FBA DASDs are like normal disks - usable with sfdisk/fdisk - and have
partition ids.
Software raid and LVM on multiple devices are not supported at the
moment. Users could install with LVM on single disk and extend logical
volume to second disk.

In KVM environment
Virtual SCSI disks (virtio) are used which are like normal disks.

Bootloader is zipl from s390-tools package.

This commit introduces setup-dasd.in for DASD functions.

Previously the vanilla kernel did not add any suffix to System.map,
config and vmlinuz for the vanilla kernel, but it does now. Fix
update-kernel to handle both cases.

Note also that /lib/modules/$ver still does not have any -vanilla
suffix.

fixes #8108

the metadata for the raid on boot partition will be at the end of
device, so it will work to boot. It is also tested and works.

We want have fewer features in the initfs and only add those that are
needed and detected.

This is a revert of 25c4933f

we fix this by unsetting BOOTLOADER for all data only setups.

also fix potential issue where we may have multiple swap devices

- uniso now properly checks freespace early
- it runs fdatasync, is interruptible, and few seconds faster
- no loop back mounting required

* This helps uniso to take majority of the io wait time for writing
  files to disk. And allows aborting setup-bootable when using uniso.
* Makes uniso abort earlier if disk is too low.

New features:

* auto detect EFI boot and install EFI ESP (force with env USE_EFI=1)
* allow specifying bootloader by env BOOTLOADER (grub or syslinux)
* allow specifying disk label by env DISKLABEL (dos or gpt)

TODO:

* Make sure MBR is only overwritten on native installs.
* Do some more checks to prevent non standard/supported setup
  like GPT on BIOS installs.

TESTS run on ESXi 6.5:

Simple native install

* syslinux OK
* GRUB OK

Extended native install

* LVM OK
* RAID OK
* RAID+LVM OK

EFI install

* Default OK
* LVM OK see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592834
* RAID NOT SUPPORTED

Data install DOS

* Default OK
* LVM OK

Data install GPT

* Default OK
* LVM OK but: /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh: line 273:
  can't create /sys/fs/cgroup/openrc/syslog/tasks: nonexistent directory

they are read-only by design. this avoids a mount time warning.

ref #7524

- move extlinux_raidopt to setup_syslinux and pass bootdev instead
- pass kernel_opts to grub config too
- make sure to quote the args to setup_grub/syslinux

This patch allows to install Alpine in the disk on ppc64le.
It installs grub and also configure the 'PowerPC PReP boot'
partition correctly.

For now the installation is enabled by selecting 'sys' option (same
option used for syslinux) in the setup options.

udhcpc will print info to stderr and it confuses the password prompt

fixes #7260