Hi,
Well, the overall question is: Is it worth an effort ?
I guess it could. Then we wouldn't need to make /dev a tmpfs and
create it's content on demand. Then again, doing so is easy enough
(with the bootshell).
So this discussion was mainly for my curiosity.
If the need arises to
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Samuel Thibault
samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote:
Justus Winter, le Fri 16 Jan 2015 11:15:37 +0100, a écrit :
Quoting David Michael (2014-09-18 23:14:17)
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Justus Winter
4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de wrote:
Bind the startup
Quoting Thomas Schmitt (2015-01-30 14:25:50)
Hi,
Justus Winter wrote:
3. Remaster using `grub-mkrescue --output=my-bootshell.iso /=master'.
The beauty of grub-mkrescue.
Yes, it's super nice :)
To start an translator on demand, the file system needs to support
storing a passive
Quoting Samuel Thibault (2015-01-30 02:02:33)
Hello,
About the Hurd news in my slides, in recent work, I have listed:
- Init system decoupled
- Allows to use standard Debian sysvinit scripts!
- Using dmd for Guix such
- Distributed mtab translator
- Various optimizations
-
Hello :)
I produced a demo live cd using my new bootshell:
http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/booting-debian-preboot.png
http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/booting-debian-boot.png
http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/bootshell0129.iso.xz
Notable features:
* Boots an unmodified Debian
Hi,
http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/bootshell0129.iso.xz
Was it produced by grub-mkrescue ?
* Boots an unmodified Debian (debootstrap --variant=minbase) from a
readonly filesystem that does not support passive translators
(iso9660fs).
Would that support be desirable and what
Hi,
Justus Winter wrote:
3. Remaster using `grub-mkrescue --output=my-bootshell.iso /=master'.
The beauty of grub-mkrescue.
More people should use it and increase its weight in GRUB2.
Even in the simple BIOS case, it already hides these expert
options of xorriso:
--grub2-mbr
Quoting Thomas Schmitt (2015-01-30 12:04:57)
http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/bootshell0129.iso.xz
Was it produced by grub-mkrescue ?
Yes. It is very easy to remaster:
1. Unpack bootshellXX.iso into a dir, e.g. `master'. Use
/hurd/iso9660fs on Hurd, or fuseiso, or file-roller on
On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 13:02 +0100, Justus Winter wrote:
Quoting Thomas Schmitt (2015-01-30 12:04:57)
Would that support be desirable and what properties would
an ISO 9660 filesystem have to provide ?
To start an translator on demand, the file system needs to support
storing a passive
