Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:35:49 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Dubiousjim <dubiousjim@gmail.com>
Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Refinements and fixes for syslinux
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 03:32:13 -0400
Dubiousjim <dubiousjim@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wrote to the list about these patches a few months ago ("some patches for
> syslinux/update-extlinux", 13 March), but it got lost in the noise. No worries.

Sorry about that.
 
> Enclosed are some bugfixes and (mostly) some extensions/refinements for our
> update-extlinux scripts.
> 
> I've been using these patches in practice on my laptop for many months and have
> had no difficulties with them. There's nothing fancy here; one just has to be
> on top of the syslinux docs (for example, at
> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX and at
> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Comboot/menu.c32).
> 
> 
> Dubiousjim (8):
>   main/syslinux: fix/refactor initramfs
>   main/syslinux: use more specific COM32 (instead of KERNEL) for
>     mboot.c32
>   main/syslinux: use more specific LINUX (instead of KERNEL) for kernels
>   main/syslinux: reorganize menu layout
>   main/syslinux: add reboot entry
>   main/syslinux: add Hardware Detection Tool entry
>   main/syslinux: don't create backup when no changes
>   main/syslinux: hooks for bootloader password
> 
>  main/syslinux/APKBUILD             |  1 +
>  main/syslinux/update-extlinux      | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf |  9 +++++
>  3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 

Looks good in general. Maybe William (original author) has comments?

If not I think I'll just apply.

btw, I'd like a --root or --basedir option so it could be run on a
separate root. (to be used with isolinux when generating the iso image)

(We'd still want make it easy to enable serial support, maybe just
uncomment a line or so)

-nc


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