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[bug#26339] "extlinux", "extlinux" gpt, bootloader-configuration without
From: |
Mathieu Othacehe |
Subject: |
[bug#26339] "extlinux", "extlinux" gpt, bootloader-configuration without package nor installer |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:58:31 +0200 |
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mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.2.1 |
Hi Danny,
I must admin the disctinction between syslinux and extlinux is a bit
unclear to me.
Reading this page :
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=EXTLINUX
"EXTLINUX is a Syslinux variant which boots from a Linux filesystem."
Which means that extlinux is a bootloader per-se and the current naming
in gnu/bootloader/extlinux.scm makes sense.
The wikipedia page of syslinux, also explains that syslinux is a "suite
of bootloaders" including :
- syslinux (the original one used for booting from fat and ntfs)
- extlinux
- pxelinux
- memdist
However, I must admit there's something strange here :
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define u-boot-bootloader
(bootloader
(inherit extlinux-bootloader)
(package #f)
(name 'u-boot)
(installer install-u-boot)
(configuration-file "/boot/extlinux.conf")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
The fact that u-boot-bootloader inherits from extlinux-bootloader seems
strange, even if u-boot is configured with a file following extlinux
syntax.
Maybe we could write :
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define u-boot-bootloader
(bootloader
(package #f)
(name 'u-boot)
(installer install-u-boot)
(configuration-file "/boot/extlinux.conf")
(configuration-file-generator extlinux-configuration-file)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
where extlinux-configuration-file is exported from extlinux.scm ?
Thanks,
Mathieu
- bug#26339: [PATCH] bootloader: Rename boot-name to bootloader-name., Mathieu Othacehe, 2017/06/10
- bug#26339: [PATCH] bootloader: Rename boot-name to bootloader-name., Ludovic Courtès, 2017/06/10
- bug#26339: [PATCH] bootloader: Rename boot-name to bootloader-name., Mathieu Othacehe, 2017/06/10
- bug#26339: [PATCH] bootloader: Rename boot-name to bootloader-name., Mathieu Othacehe, 2017/06/11
- bug#26339: "extlinux", "extlinux" gpt, bootloader-configuration without package nor installer, Danny Milosavljevic, 2017/06/11
- bug#26339: "extlinux", "extlinux" gpt, bootloader-configuration without package nor installer, Danny Milosavljevic, 2017/06/11
- [bug#26339] "extlinux", "extlinux" gpt, bootloader-configuration without package nor installer,
Mathieu Othacehe <=
- [bug#26339] "extlinux", "extlinux" gpt, bootloader-configuration without package nor installer, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/06/12
- [bug#26339] "extlinux", "extlinux" gpt, bootloader-configuration without package nor installer, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/06/12
- [bug#26339] "extlinux", "extlinux" gpt, bootloader-configuration without package nor installer, Danny Milosavljevic, 2017/06/13