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Hello syslinux, Merry Christmas! These patches will make extlinux work with umounted ext2/3/4 filesystem, for example: $ extlinux -i /dev/sdXN or $ extlinux -i file_block Also it can work with something like: $ extlinux /dev/sdXN --reset-adv or $ extlinux file_block --reset-adv We don't use a new option (I planed to use "-d" but it is already in use), it will check whether the

Hello, Happy New Year! These patches make syslinux/linux support ext2/3/4, and it doesn't require the root privilege, I'd like to add a separate e2fs/syslinux, if that is more appropriate, it should be easy to do that. I put these patches on github so that you can easily get them in case you'd like to test them. (The repo's name is sys_tmp, which avoids confusing others, I will

We support both device and directory as the target now. Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com> --- libinstaller/syslxopt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libinstaller/syslxopt.c b/libinstaller/syslxopt.c index 3fc5519..d06719f 100644 --- a/libinstaller/syslxopt.c +++ b/libinstaller/syslxopt.c @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ void __attribute__

On May 13, 2014 4:04 PM, "Ady" <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > I wonder why the already built-in binaries are not enough / adequate. > > I don't believe it can be used as is: > > bash# file syslinux > > syslinux: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version

On 12/25/2014 04:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/24/2014 12:16 AM, Robert Yang wrote: >> Hello syslinux, >> >> Merry Christmas! These patches will make extlinux work with umounted >> ext2/3/4 filesystem, for example: >> >> $ extlinux -i /dev/sdXN >> or >> $ extlinux -i file_block >> >> Also it can work with something like:

> > > On 12/25/2014 04:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 12/24/2014 12:16 AM, Robert Yang wrote: > >> Hello syslinux, > >> > >> Merry Christmas! These patches will make extlinux work with umounted > >> ext2/3/4 filesystem, for example: > >> > >> $ extlinux -i /dev/sdXN > >> or > >> $ extlinux -i file_block

On 11/21/2014 02:33 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 11/20/2014 10:21 PM, Robert Yang wrote: >> >> which can copy files into test.img without mount it, for example: >> $ mke2fs -t ext3 -d <rootfs_dir> -F test.img >> >> I'd like to make extlinux can work without mount the filesystem (use >> libext2fs), is it possible for extlinux, please ? And is such

On 12/25/2014 01:43 PM, Ady wrote: > >> >> >> On 12/25/2014 04:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> On 12/24/2014 12:16 AM, Robert Yang wrote: >>>> Hello syslinux, >>>> >>>> Merry Christmas! These patches will make extlinux work with umounted >>>> ext2/3/4 filesystem, for example: >>>> >>>> $ extlinux

On 11/20/2014 10:21 PM, Robert Yang wrote: > > which can copy files into test.img without mount it, for example: > $ mke2fs -t ext3 -d <rootfs_dir> -F test.img > > I'd like to make extlinux can work without mount the filesystem (use > libext2fs), is it possible for extlinux, please ? And is such a patch > acceptable, please ? (Add a "-d/--device

> > > On 11/21/2014 02:33 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 11/20/2014 10:21 PM, Robert Yang wrote: > >> > >> which can copy files into test.img without mount it, for example: > >> $ mke2fs -t ext3 -d <rootfs_dir> -F test.img > >> > >> I'd like to make extlinux can work without mount the filesystem (use > >>

This set of patches add some support for sector size >512. Currently it fixes extlinux, MBR for GPT and ext partitions. Other code is unaffected. This set of patches has been tested on a read Dell machine running a beta firmware.

In Syslinux 6.03 -> libinstaller/syslxopt.c: #n 50: const struct option long_options[] = { ... #n 60: {"raid-mode", 0, NULL, 'r'}, ... #n105: fprintf(stderr, ... #n112: " --raid -r Fall back to the next device on boot failure\n" Comparing line #60 vs. line #112:

Hello, Is it possible to install extlinux into a disk image, without being root ? It seems like extlinux --install absolutely requires the specific block device in which extlinux should be installed to be mounted. This prevents from doing an extlinux installation as non-root, which is annoying for build systems such as Buildroot [1] that build a complete Linux system from source, without being

Hello syslinux, I'm a newbie to extlinux, and I'm a developer from yocto project (an embedded linux project). The device or filesystem must be mounted before we can install the bootsector to the device if I understand correctly, for example: $ mount /dev/sdcX /tmp/mnt $ extlinux -i /tmp/mnt Usually, the mount command requires the root privilage, we may not have the root privilage when

Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> writes: > In Syslinux 6.03 -> libinstaller/syslxopt.c: > > > #n 50: const struct option long_options[] = { > ... > #n 60: {"raid-mode", 0, NULL, 'r'}, > ... > #n105: fprintf(stderr, > ... > #n112: " --raid -r Fall back to the next device on boot failure\n" > > >

On 12/24/2014 12:16 AM, Robert Yang wrote: > Hello syslinux, > > Merry Christmas! These patches will make extlinux work with umounted > ext2/3/4 filesystem, for example: > > $ extlinux -i /dev/sdXN > or > $ extlinux -i file_block > > Also it can work with something like: > $ extlinux /dev/sdXN --reset-adv > or > $ extlinux file_block --reset-adv >

> On 01/01/2015 09:05 PM, Robert Yang wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Happy New Year! > > > > These patches make syslinux/linux support ext2/3/4, and it doesn't > > require the root privilege, I'd like to add a separate e2fs/syslinux, if > > that is more appropriate, it should be easy to do that. > > > > I put these patches on github so

On Jun 05 2014, Ady wrote: > > I'm working on a system derived from ARCH linux, running what they > > call version 6.02-4 of the syslinux package (which would be your > > version 6.02 plus their/our patches). I've got a syslinux.cfg > > ArchLinux currently is already using 6.03-pre12 or newer, so I would > suggest for you to update. I want to keep the

On 01/01/2015 09:05 PM, Robert Yang wrote: > Hello, > > Happy New Year! > > These patches make syslinux/linux support ext2/3/4, and it doesn't > require the root privilege, I'd like to add a separate e2fs/syslinux, if > that is more appropriate, it should be easy to do that. > > I put these patches on github so that you can easily get them in case >

(snip) > It probably makes more sense in > the "syslinux" installer rather than "extlinux", since the former > already operates on an unmounted filesystem. > In other words, the Linux-based "syslinux" installers could / would support ext2/3/4 too. In particular, the (./bios/mtools/) "syslinux" command does not need special permissions