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Message-ID: <20111029094913.GA16608@albatros>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:49:13 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: syslinux
Solar,
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 15:00 +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> > -log "Installing sources"
> ...
> > +if [ "$COPY_SOURCES" != "NO" ]; then
>
> These extra changes should be committed separately from (before or
> after) the move from LILO to ISOLINUX. Also, how about we use more
> consistent shell variable names - e.g., ISO_COMPRESS instead of
> COMPRESS_ISO, and then also ISO_COPY_SOURCES?
OK.
> I understand that you did not want to duplicate the lengthy list of
> options to mkisofs, but creating an uncompressed .iso file on disk
> unnecessarily is not good. I suggest that you do something like:
>
> MKISOFS_OPTS='...'
> if [ -z "$COMPRESS_ISO" ]; then
> mkisofs $MKISOFS_OPTS "$ROOT" | gzip -9 > "$ISO.gz"
> else
> mkisofs $MKISOFS_OPTS -o "$ISO" "$ROOT"
> fi
OK.
> Also, it'd be nice to start including the arch name in default ISO and
> vztemplate filenames (should be a separate commit, though). I already
> do such renames of files that we release - manually.
What is the best way to get the arch? Given we'll probably support
multiarch in the future.
> > The isolinux.cfg:
> >
> > timeout 50
> > display /boot/message
> > default normal
> > prompt 1
>
> Does our current message (explaining "safe" and "rescue") display OK?
I'm playing with "menu" commands, I'll answer it a bit later.
> > label rescue
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuz
>
> With "safe" and "rescue", do the existing instructions apply? -
Yes.
> Is there possibly a feature in ISOLINUX to prevent the rescue label from
> being booted without a root device specified? Right now, with LILO, a
> common user error is to just try booting "rescue", which then fails with
> a kernel panic.
I don't see such an option. If the kernel image is bogus, syslinux fails to
continue and keeps the user in the menu. But I cannot see how to
force "root=" passing...
Thanks,
--
Vasiliy
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