Re: cvs commit to debian-cd/tools/boot/woody by jwest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 On Tuesday 20 November 2001 14:49, you wrote: Hi Jim, snip I'm currently updating/re-writing the cdimage.d.o FAQ. Could you tell me exactly what six flavours of kernel these six boot images contain? hhh things move fast in boot-floppy land... ;-0 As of today, there are 5 different 'flavors' of the boot-floppy kernel images. And they are on the following woody-i386 disks by default: 1 - default 2 - compact 3 - idepci 4 - udma100-ext3 5 - reiserfs The code I committed last week, when used with the MULTIBOOT option, will put all of these on the first cd, the remaining cd's remain as listed above. The first cd should then be able to present the user with a list of possible boot images. If the released image of disk 1 should have the MULTIBOOT feature, has not been discussed, as it has not ben throughly tested as yet. I am hopeful I hope this helps. - -- - -- Jim Westveer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - You are standing in a maze of twisty little passages, that all look alike. XYZZY: Poof! - E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] work : 425-591-3002 pgp-key 0x36129171gpg-key 0x9823336C - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEAREBAAYFAjv8Jz4ACgkQXpzfopgjM2xzLACgjJcLYaMLs6g7CSteXDGMTRj8 O9sAn0NgFH6VEyfCUHhjQhdAk/1iRkBx =/Tls -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to debian-cd/tools/boot/woody by jwest
Repository: debian-cd/tools/boot/woody who:jwest time: Sat Nov 17 02:49:46 PST 2001 Log Message: MULTIBOOT option now supports all 6 flavors of boot-disk kernels on disk1 Files: changed:boot-i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvs commit to debian-cd/tools/boot/woody by jwest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 On Saturday 17 November 2001 01:02, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:04:45PM -0800, Debian Boot CVS Master écrivait: Repository: debian-cd/tools/boot/woody snip,snip first test of multiboot ElTorito image for cd1 Hi Jim, can you provide a bit more information about this ? How is the choice supposed to happen and so on ? What are your first results ? Raphael , There was some discussion a while back that we needed to have our CD #1 support booting of multiple kernel flavors, as does some other distributions. As boot-floppies now has 6 different 'flavors' of rescue images, currently we put a copy of one on disk one, another on disk 2etc. I did some testing a few months ago using the mkisofs option using -eltorito-alt-boot and found out that many bios's do not support multiple boot images from a ElTorito multi-boot disks...BUT. even if they even if they dont support the selection of the different images, they will at least boot the first imagethey just dont show the user a selection to pick from. Newer bios's may show the user 3 or more optionsvery hardware/bios dependant. None the less, with the ability now to put all of the 6 cd's on to one DVD disk, it brings up the issue again. When one only has one DVD disk, it would be nice if that one disk could present the various images to boot from.after-all they are all on the darn diskits just a matter of setting up the ElTorito boot blocks to allow the user to select one at boot time (if their hardware/bios supports it) Aditionally I did NOT WANT TO CHANGE the default behavior of debian-cd, where it will just write a single boot image on each CD, so I set up the new option/switch called MULTIBOOT. If one does not set MULTIBOOT, debian-cd behaves just as before. If you DO set MULTIBOOT=yes , Then the code turns on, and writes all 6 rescue kernel flavors on the FIRST DISK ONLY. The remaining disks get a single boot image as before. I marked the CVS changelog as : * first test of multi-boot cdimage for i386 disk #1 You must export MULTIBOOT=yes in CONF.sh to enable this feature. -jwest and used the word test because this was my first attempt to include the -eltorito-alt-boot option for the i386. Turns out I made a small typo, and I have just uploaded a correction. Currently with MULTIBOOT set, The first disk boots, on all 4 pc's I have here. In the worst case, it will just load the first (the default) kernel, In the best case, the bios will display a menu of the possible boot kernels. I hope this helps explain my changes, I will still like to test the resultant multi-boot-images on additional hosts as I get the time. Ciao, (seattle, cold, raining ;-( - -- Jim Westveer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - You are standing in a maze of twisty little passages, that all look alike. XYZZY: Poof! - E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] work : 425-591-3002 pgp-key 0x36129171gpg-key 0x9823336C - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEAREBAAYFAjv2RZAACgkQXpzfopgjM2zB0QCdEdG9B6sfnWiJICo+6a9IMPTy dUMAnRh5OcB8G3GuZHDL2woWTazFLbc0 =ynf2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to debian-cd/tools/boot/woody by jwest
Repository: debian-cd/tools/boot/woody who:jwest time: Sat Nov 17 16:36:20 PST 2001 Log Message: Clean up of mboot code Files: changed:boot-i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to debian-cd/tools/boot/woody by jwest
Repository: debian-cd/tools/boot/woody who:jwest time: Fri Nov 16 22:04:45 PST 2001 Log Message: first test of multiboot ElTorito image for cd1 Files: changed:boot-i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to debian-cd/tools/boot/woody by jwest
Repository: debian-cd/tools/boot/woody who:jwest time: Thu Nov 15 17:24:47 PST 2001 Log Message: small change suggested by Petter Reinholdtsen Files: changed:boot-i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to debian-cd/tools/boot/woody by jwest
Repository: debian-cd/tools/boot/woody who:jwest time: Sat Sep 29 17:32:43 PDT 2001 Log Message: added boot blocks for udma100-ext3 to disk 4 and reiserfs to disk 5 Files: changed:boot-i386 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]