--- El mié 14-jul-10, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> escribió:
> De: Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> > Am 14.07.2010 03:11, schrieb Gerardo > Exequiel Pozzi: > > Since new initscripts and mkinitcpio are in [core] new > images can be > > build without doing "git/overlay hacks". > > What kind of hacks are you talking about exactly? > * build packages from git and adding a custom repo * or install directly from git * or write modified files to overlay (ex: rc.sysinit) > > {*} There is a bug in qemu-kvm that ide-cdrom (default > used) does not > > work propertly, use instead and scsi-cdrom. [#1] > > Are you sure that this only affects the qemu cdrom? > Shouldn't we provide > a simple workaround that catches all CD drives, no matter > what kind of > weird bugs there might be? > This is a bug in qemu-kvm ide cdrom drive implementation, does not implement or does not work the command "READ DISC INFORMATION". As workaround just boot on qemu as scsi cd-rom that works better than ide implementation. (I guess that adding a workaround in archiso should be in case of real machine where there is no choice) > > {****} -T basic is how official dual media (2010.05) > is build. Now this > > image size is 705MB, a bit larger for CD-ROMs. I guess > for next official > > media -T split should be used (currently 637MB). > > Can you summarize what exactly -T split does? Sure -T basic: join both .iso keeping .sqfs intact. -T split: join both .iso modifiying .sqfs with the follow rules: * usrshare.sqfs (any) is build from i686 root-image.sqfs [this can be done since /usr/share for both archs is the same] * libmodules.sqfs (for each arch) is build from root-image.sqfs (respectively) [useful for boot 64Krnl/32User] * /usr/share and /lib/modudes are removed from both root-images.sqfs * core-any-pkg.sqfs (any) is build from i686 core-pkgs.sqfs. * *any* packages are removed from both core-pkgs.sqfs -T full: join both .iso doing all work in "split", but also removes specified files (listed on a file) from root-image.sqfs. > > Also, there is the overlay: We used to have a separate > overlay for each > architecture, is that still necessary? If we add > "Architecture = auto" > to pacman.conf and use $arch in mirrorlist (is that already > done?), it > seems we can use the same overlay for both architectures. > > Yes, anyway overlay.sqfs is 8192 bytes :P PS: sorry for email format I am out from my home. Sent via webmail, running under custom archiso with KDE with all "chiches" (toys) :P
