Hi,

scsijon wrote:
> Try, http://dl.t2-project.org/binary/unstable/9.0-trunk/

Let's have a look.

t2-9.0-r45574-minimal-i586_cd1.iso boots only from CD, DVD, or BD medium
via BIOS or EFI BIOS Emulation.
It does not boot by SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX image file isolinux.bin but rather
by an image file named  /boot/grub/stage2_eltorito . Its content has the
text "GNU GRUB 0.97-os.8". So it is from GRUB Legacy, not from the well
maintained current GNU GRUB 2.
I find no traces in the web that a file named ldlinux.c32 belongs to GRUB
or GRUB Legacy. So with both GRUBs it is not to expect that ldlinux.c32
would have any job to do.

t2-9.0-r45574-minimal-x86-64_cd1.iso has the same boot opportunity from
optical media via boot image /boot/grub/stage2_eltorito .


Well, the decision for GRUB is not too bad. But one should consider to
migrate to GRUB 2. Its program grub-mkrescue builds a bootable ISO,
depending on the configured processor architectures and firmwares.
The resulting ISO for the full x86 firmware spectrum boots via BIOS and EFI
from optical media (e.g. CD) and from HDD (e.g. USB stick).

Most Linux distros use ISOLINUX for BIOS and GRUB 2 for EFI, because SYSLINUX
EFI software does not operate CD-ROM outside the EFI System Partition.
Only recent Knoppix 8 uses SYSLINUX for EFI by a 15 MB System partition
with a complete small Linux in it.

Purely GRUB 2 based ISOs are quite rare. Only small distros use it for now.
But one has to say that GRUB 2 has several developers, whereas SYSLINUX
is quite orphaned upstreams.

The reason to stay with ISOLINUX for BIOS is mainly due to the ISO makers'
conservativism. Nevertheless, ISOLINUX booting from USB stick suffered
since 2009 from a bug which prevented booting on BIOSes which do not
announce to support LBA addressing on hard disks.
So the quality benefit of such conservatism is well questionable.


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Maybe off topic:

Is it normal to get from one mail to [email protected] two notifications
from foreign mail providers that the mail was not delivered to some
unrelated mail addresses ?

     From: Mail Delivery System <[email protected]>
     ...
     host mx2.mail.hostpoint.ch [217.26.49.139]: 550 SPF-check failed:

and

     From: Mail Delivery System <[email protected]>
     Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) - SPF
     ...
     Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.x.0 - Message bounced by administrator (delivery 
attempts: 0)

www.openspf.net says about the first rejection:

     mxin013.mail.hostpoint.ch rejected a message that claimed an envelope 
sender address of [email protected].
     mxin013.mail.hostpoint.ch received a message from mx.exactcode.de 
(144.76.154.42) that claimed an envelope sender address of [email protected].
     However, the domain gmx.net has declared using SPF that it does not send 
mail through mx.exactcode.de (144.76.154.42). That is why the message was 
rejected.

I understand that the mailing list tells those mail servers that the
resent mail was from me, whereas my mail provider GMX tells SPF that it
does not use the mailing list server to send mails from my address.

This effect is exotic to me. No other mailing list causes it.
Is it that the subscribers here have so odd providers or is it that
mx.exactcode.de is not fully suitable for mails that come from GMX ?
(Explanation for non-germans: GMX is big in germany. Not exotic at all.)


Have a nice day :)

Thomas



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