Re: extlinux

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Tokarev
26.05.2010 22:32, Daniel Baumann wrote: [] how about adding your parameters to EXTLINUX_PARAMETERS in /etc/default/extlinux? then they will be used for all images in the config automatically. in case that's not what you were looking for: as stated in another mail, i've added update-extlinux

Re: extlinux

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/27/2010 08:54 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote: Just one question: why /boot/extlinux/ ? Why can't it be placed directly to /boot, so that all kernel images may be referenced using relative paths? there's more than one file used for the config, so putting them into an own directory is better

extlinux (was: Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2))

2010-05-26 Thread Bjørn Mork
Daniel Baumann dan...@debian.org writes: as of current git, you can now use EXTLINUX_UPDATE=false in /etc/default/extlinux to prevent having update-extlinux do anything. That's the single feature I misseded. Thanks. Although it would be even better if it was possible to include some fixed

Re: extlinux (was: Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2))

2010-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bjørn Mork, le Wed 26 May 2010 10:45:49 +0200, a écrit : Just comparing http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git with http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub/ should IMHO give more than enough information to choose extlinux over grub2 I don't understand what you mean here

Re: extlinux

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/26/2010 10:45 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: That's the single feature I misseded. Thanks. welcome. Although it would be even better if it was possible to include some fixed part in it, while keeping most of it auto updated. I tested the extlinux package after reading about it yesterday