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

[Toomas Soome]

> On 4. nov 2016, at 14:21, Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com <mailto:tsoome at me.com>> wrote:
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>> On 4. nov 2016, at 14:07, Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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.
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>> >> 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) ?
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>> > 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.
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> 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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Right:D well, the loader related manuals are in illumos-gate/usr/src/boot tree, those are from freebsd, and so using the layout and details specific for fbsd, most have suffix 8, but few have also 3 and 5. The same are also accessible via freebsd web interface. If any specific questions arise, I will help, no problem.

Also there was headsup in illumos developers list and alp did collect some list of questions/answers.

rgds,
toomas
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