Bug#775322: Bootloader code issues and improvements

2015-01-18 Thread adrian15
El 18/01/15 a las 07:27, jnqnfe escribió: (forgot to cc the bug, here's a copy) I did not find that problem in my tests. But that can be explained by saying that my initial tests were done with live-build-4.0. The problem also exists in 4.x. For my text amd64 sid build using grub2, I have

Bug#775322: Bootloader code issues and improvements

2015-01-17 Thread jnqnfe
(forgot to cc the bug, here's a copy) I did not find that problem in my tests. But that can be explained by saying that my initial tests were done with live-build-4.0. The problem also exists in 4.x. For my text amd64 sid build using grub2, I have the following grub2 menu entries: - Debian

Bug#775322: Bootloader code issues and improvements

2015-01-17 Thread adrian15
El 17/01/15 a las 02:21, jnqnfe escribió: On 15/01/2015 14:52, adrian15 wrote: I just write down here that I will have to review your mentioned: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8 and #9 in my (#757883) (support for loopback.cfg file) so that it matches your improvements and fixes. No problem, I

Bug#775322: Bootloader code issues and improvements

2015-01-17 Thread jnqnfe
Additional issue: #23) d syslinux does not apply kernel version filtering to multi-flavour scenarios -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#775322: Bootloader code issues and improvements

2015-01-17 Thread jnqnfe
Additional issue: #23) syslinux does not apply kernel version filtering to multi-flavour scenarios -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#775322: Bootloader code issues and improvements

2015-01-16 Thread jnqnfe
Additional issue: #21) syslinux looks in wrong location (binary/live instead of binary/boot) when LB_INITRAMFS is not live-boot or casper. Same issue as #20, but affecting syslinux here and resulting from a related mistake with a different case structure and variable, which is out of line with

Bug#775322: Bootloader code issues and improvements

2015-01-16 Thread jnqnfe
On 15/01/2015 14:52, adrian15 wrote: I just write down here that I will have to review your mentioned: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8 and #9 in my (#757883) (support for loopback.cfg file) so that it matches your improvements and fixes. No problem, I will upload the first batch of work soon,

Bug#775322: Bootloader code issues and improvements

2015-01-16 Thread jnqnfe
Additional issue: #22) broken path preventing use of memtest86(+) from grub2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#775322: Bootloader code issues and improvements

2015-01-16 Thread jnqnfe
Ok, here is the first set of patches. Attached is an archive with a set of commits that cover issues #1-8, 10-11, 13-16, and 20-22. These have been built on top of the debian-next (5.x) branch. #17 is being ignored, I'm not going to spend any further time on grub-legacy, and hopefully if Daniel

Bug#775322: Bootloader code issues and improvements

2015-01-16 Thread jnqnfe
Additional issue: #23) The syslinux/menu.cfg file has a caret character at the beginning of the Advanced options title; this character can be used to create hotkeys with labels, but does not work with titles and so should not be there. This lead me to incorrectly add this caret to three other

Bug#775322: Bootloader code issues and improvements

2015-01-15 Thread adrian15
El 14/01/15 a las 04:54, jnqnfe escribió: Package: live-build Version: 5.0~a2-1 Reviewing the bootloader menu creation code, I have drawn up the following list of fixes and improvements needed. Some of these I have already reported and supplied patches for separately, but I'm listing them here

Bug#775322: Bootloader code issues and improvements

2015-01-14 Thread jnqnfe
Additional issue: #20) grub2 looks in wrong location (binary/live instead of binary/boot) when LB_INITRAMFS is not live-boot or casper. I have built patches for 14/20 issues now, will upload soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#775322: Bootloader code issues and improvements

2015-01-13 Thread jnqnfe
Package: live-build Version: 5.0~a2-1 Reviewing the bootloader menu creation code, I have drawn up the following list of fixes and improvements needed. Some of these I have already reported and supplied patches for separately, but I'm listing them here again to provide a comprehensive set of