[oi-dev] FLAG DAY: Provide loader menu additions for boot image.

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:

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> On 4. nov 2016, at 14:07, Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:
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>> > On 4. nov 2016, at 11:53, Jean-Pierre André <
>> jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
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>> > Toomas Soome wrote:
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>> >> Support for specifying loader configuration on installation media was
>> added to distribution constructror.
>> >>
>> >> This support consists several components.
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>> >> 1. loader configuration script for distribution manifest:
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>> > I do not see information about which file systems are supported
>> > by the loader.
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>> > Is dual (triple) booting on Windows (ntfs) and Linux (ext2)
>> > supported by the loader (or planned to be supported) ?
>> >
>> > Jean-Pierre
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>> I forgot to add; for dual boot *menu* entry, all you need is to set
>> chain_disk=“devicename:”, for example in file /boot/conf.d/chainload  - if
>> the variable chain_disk is set, the menu entry will appear. In case of
>> distro constructor, this will be done in /boot/loader.rc.local on installer
>> image. However, we do not install this file to disk (if you will look into
>> it, you can figure out, why;).
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> Could we compile the info on the Wiki somehow, or if you have a pointer at
> hand?
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> Sure, just someone needs to write it down… Also, there are manuals waiting
> for helping hand in source tree - reviewing and updating manuals is great
> way to get knowledge and to start to contribute. This is not Sun/Oracle any
> more - if people wont contribute, nothing will happen.
>

Sure but that was implicitly the second part of my question, maybe some
pointers would give an entry point to volunteers?



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> rgds,
> toomas
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