similar to: Bootloader data in /boot vs package systems (and atomic updates)

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/OSTree which is a > general-purpose update system for Linux-based operating systems. It isn't a > package system itself, but operates at the same level. > > A primary goal of OSTree is fully atomic updates, and the "swapped

Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> writes: > I'm working on https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/OSTree which is a > general-purpose update system for Linux-based operating systems. It > isn't a package system itself, but operates at the same level. > > A primary goal of OSTree is fully atomic updates, and the "swapped > chroots" model works well for most

On Apr 24, 2014 3:19 AM, "Ferenc Wagner" <wferi at niif.hu> wrote: > > Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> writes: > > However, syslinux relies on loadable modules in /boot. At present in > > Fedora at least, the RPM package updates these, and it has a %post to > > ensure that when a newer version of extlinux is installed, we update > > both

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: > > I think you mean the VBR since no Syslinux variant lives in the MBR > and on Linux, Right, thanks. > Does the installation of an updated package of GRUB2 trigger an > installation of modules during install on Fedora It used to, but no longer does. There's some background here:

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: > > FWIW and just as one example, ArchLinux has its own script Looks like the canonical source is here: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/syslinux-install_update?h=packages/syslinux Right. Hmm. The painful thing will be transitioning the existing package, as it would obviously break

Hi, I'm trying to make Syslinux, OSTree and Qemu work together. So I've made an image, installed Syslinux v. 6.0.3 on it with extlinux and try to boot it. Unfortunately it stops on the stage of loading the kernel with Loading /boot/ostree/agl-17980142f6d5ef5e82153aa533ffb9775181f93248e62a4821f925cdf1b81c34/vmlinuz... failed: I/O error The vmlinuz file is just a normal bzImage (v.

Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> writes: > On Apr 24, 2014 3:19 AM, "Ferenc Wagner" <wferi at niif.hu> wrote: >> >> Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> writes: >> >>> However, syslinux relies on loadable modules in /boot. At present in >>> Fedora at least, the RPM package updates these, and it has a %post to >>>

Thanks Ady, tried current master and shortened path to /boot/vmlinuz. Same stuff. OSTree doesn't really come into play at this stage, it is just booting the kernel. So I would rather suspect that there is something between ext4, extlinux and qemu. On 03/21/2017 04:01 AM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to make Syslinux, OSTree and Qemu work

I'm trying to understand what the extlinux bootloader code written into a partition needs to successfully start. I have a disk with four partitions, the second is marked active and contains a kernel, initrd and root FS and extlinux has been run on it. If I use mbr.bin as the initial bootloader the system boots fine. I need this to work within an environment supplied by a third party. They

Hi syslinux list, Some months ago, hpa was kind enough to help me troubleshoot booting Extlinux in a system with the following particulars: * Windows Vista x64 bootloader in the MBR and Vista installed in /dev/sda1 * Extlinux 3.72 installed in the first sector of /dev/sda2 and Foresight Linux installed in /dev/sda2 (at the time I tried, 3.72 was the default bootloader in Foresight) The problem

Hi, I'd like to start documenting the "CentOS Atomic Host Continuous" stream (https://ci.centos.org/job/atomic-rdgo-centos7/) I plan to create a new /SpecialInterestGroup/Atomic/Devel page. May I please have access to do that? My wiki username is ColinWalters. Thanks!

I have some concerns about the Syslinux boot process, which I'm now investigating in connection with my work on booting Live-CD images from USB flashdrives. Some of these are related to what seems to be inadequate documentation, but I think that there are also aspects of Syslinux operation which could be fairly easily improved. quoting from the official documentation: Since version 5.00,

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450 Summary: Support for ConsoleKit on Linux through dbus calls Classification: Unclassified Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 4.7p1 Platform: Other

On Tuesday 27 May 2014 14:25:08 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > So I think an API which looks like this ... > > required params: > > None > > optional params: > > path => > Either a directory to be relabelled recursively, or a single > file (defaults to "/"). > > root => > Inspection root of guest. Optional, only

On Tuesday 27 May 2014 09:08:27 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:21:59AM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > > Rewrite the relabel API to read the policy configured in the guest, > > invoking setfiles (added as part of the appliance, as part of > > policycoreutils) to relabel the specified root. In case of failure > > at > > any point of the process,

Hi I understand you (mostly). 0) How do i "install the MBR code as well and to activate your partition." 1) "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" -->> successfully completed. 2) "mkdir /mnt/extlinux" -->> successfully completed. 3) "extlinux --install /mnt/extlinux" -->> does not work. Funny, but it it seems that there is no such thing as

> > > The alternative is an additional script that would run the installer > > binary extlinux and copy *.c32 at the same time. > FWIW and just as one example, ArchLinux has its own script, "syslinux-install_update -i -a -m". -i : install SYSLINUX; -a : mark partition as "active"; -m : install mbr boot code. I have not checked whether currently the

I have put a compile hack in for older distros and pushed it out as syslinux-3.62-pre16; for those who have reported compilation problem on older distros I would greatly appreciate if you could confirm if it works now (it worked for me on a CentOS 3.9 VM.) -hpa

Hi! It's funny, but I was unable to find an answer to my question. I am building an embedded system (x86). I want to install syslinux on a fresh system. So, I am booting from a USB LINUX CD (Ubuntu 12.04 in this case). 1) I must have an ext2 partition (This is my application). 2) I understand that I must have a FAT partition (to install syslinux). Correct ? So, basically I understand that

Hi all, I have just released syslinux-3.70-pre25. Unless someone has something big and scary that either I have managed to miss or was just stumbled over, I'm going to release 3.70 final some time between tomorrow and Monday. Thus, *please holler now* if there are any stop-ship problems still known... -hpa