Hi,
because others wanted it. And I’m quite sure it worked at least a decade ago.
It defaults to grub though, and that is what I build the last ISOs with that
worked for me in vmware, and actual hardware the other week.
The next step will be to make grub2 the default option, I already did this for
powerpc.
René
On May 2, 2017, at 22:59, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
> so why include it in ./scripts/Config at all?
>
> btw, i'm fine with grub ;)
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2 May 2017 22:56:47 +0200
> René Rebe <[email protected]> schrieb:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i’m for many reasons not interested in syslinux at all.
>>
>> I will happily accept patches for whatever, but otherwise just use
>> grub, and on latest machines that means grub2.
>>
>> René
>>
>> On May 2, 2017, at 22:51, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> from thomas' link:
>>> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Library_modules#Syslinux_Modules_by_Firmware_and_Architecture
>>>
>>> For other Syslinux variants (PXELINUX, ISOLINUX) booting BIOS
>>> firmware, the second file, ldlinux.c32, needs to be manually added,
>>> just as the boot loader. Both files shall match the same version.
>>> For example, before building a new ISOLINUX image, two files are
>>> now needed: the isolinux.bin boot loader file, and the same
>>> auxiliary ldlinux.c32 file.
>>>
>>> did not research it any further, but sounds like it could be the
>>> culprit... or not?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2 May 2017 21:24:18 +0200
>>> René Rebe <[email protected]> schrieb:
>>>
>>>> Hey,
>>>>
>>>> I did not really build that recently. But ldlinux.c32 sounds
>>>> strange (is that syslinux?), if then I ever only used grub in the
>>>> last 10 years or so?
>>>>
>>>> René
>>>>
>>>> On May 1, 2017, at 18:27, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> forgot to mention, that i compiled the generic/minimal (no X)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 1 May 2017 18:22:35 +0200
>>>>> Chris <[email protected]> schrieb:
>>>>>
>>>>>> hi list,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> is the livecd feature supposed to work on 9.0?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 'cause i cant get it to run, compiled from the latest x64.iso
>>>>>>
>>>>>> grub only shows the option to boot from hd and syslinux freaks
>>>>>> out about a missing ldlinux.c32 (ran inside a kvm libvirt with
>>>>>> ide drivers)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> regards, chris
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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