On Thu, Mar 22, 2012, Robie Basak wrote: > But what about just fixing the bug? Given that flash-kernel (in the > installer udeb) already replaces any previous boot configuration on the > SD card, why not do it properly and have it replace or move away > uEnv.txt as well? Surely this would be a trivial change, not impact > anything else and not require a hack to work around?
At least to me it doesn't feel right to add workarounds for any random setup; what if e.g. the first partition doesn't have the bootable flag? what if it's ext2 instead of vfat? etc. Special casing a possibly existing uEnv.txt smells wrong. There is also the spectrum that we might be overwriting data, but as you point out flash-kernel already overwrites things like kernel and initrd. Maybe what's really missing is some piece in the installer (maybe in flash-kernel-installer) to reformat the partition as to ignore its contents? Basically, I'm trying to have this designed consistently so that we don't do something overly specialized for a specific board and use case. -- Loïc Minier -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/961174 Title: flash-kernel fails to override uEnv.txt To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flash-kernel/+bug/961174/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
