[arch-releng] archisobasedir discussion.

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

  On 10/17/2010 09:41 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>  On 10/17/2010 08:43 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> Am 18.10.2010 01:18, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>>>>> No, /boot moves to /archlinux/boot as well. The only directory in the
>>>>> root of the file system would be /archlinux.
>>>>>
>>>> OK, Of course! I was forgetting that at the time of the creation of
>>>> the iso, you specify the path of the syslinux, hehe :)
>>>>
>>> archlinux has 9 chars, iso9660 level 1 is limited to 8.3, sugestions?
>>>
>>> arch
>>> archiso
>>> My Arch Linux Booteable Medium Made By ArchISO :P
>> Oops - I just did it on vfat. I'd prefer arch/.
>>
> I made changes to mkarchiso and syslinux-iso/Makefile but... does not 
> work (config file not found)
>
> Seems that you only played with extlinux, because isolinux....
>
> 72       ++++ NOTE ON THE CONFIG FILE DIRECTORY ++++
> 73
> 74 ISOLINUX will search for the config file directory in the order
> 75 /boot/isolinux, /isolinux, /.  The first directory that exists is
> 76 used, even if it contains no files.  Therefore, please make sure that
> 77 these directories don't exist if you don't want ISOLINUX to use them.
>
> And this documentation is up to date acording to the code
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=blob;f=core/fs/iso9660/iso9660.c;hb=HEAD#l275 
>
I missed "not" word, anyway does not work.
>
> isofs still uses this custom method instead of generic for 
> syslinux/extlinux
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=blob;f=core/fs/lib/loadconfig.c;hb=HEAD#l14 
>
>
I think we have two or three options, please make a choice (I currently 
working now on this)

/boot (place like now kernel+memtest+syslinux here)
/archlinux

OR

/boot/syslinux (place only syslinux files here)
/archlinux
/archlinux/boot (place kernel+memtest)

OR
/syslinux (place only syslinux files here)
/archlinux
/archlinux/boot (place kernel+memtest)


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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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