On 05/26/2010 10:45 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: > That's the single feature I misseded. Thanks.
welcome. > Although it would be even better if it was possible to include some > fixed part in it, while keeping most of it auto updated. I tested the > extlinux package after reading about it yesterday, and the missing > feature that immediately hit me was the ability to use a serial console. > This is of course as easy as with sys-/pxe-/mem-linux: just add > "serial 0 9600 0" or something similar to the config file. But running > update-extlinux would remove it on every kernel upgrade. Anyway, I > understand that this issue is now solved. how about adding your parameters to EXTLINUX_PARAMETERS in /etc/default/extlinux? then they will be used for all images in the config automatically. in case that's not what you were looking for: as stated in another mail, i've added update-extlinux/extlinux-install and it fits my setups well - but any suggestions are welcome, please feel encouraged to submit bug reports against extlinux. > It has puzzled me for a while that grub2 has been chosen over extlinux > as the default x86 bootloader extlinux doesn't support as many filesystems to read the kernels from as grub does (extlinux basically only supports extlinux, and in 4.0 also btrfs; and syslinux would support fat, though). while i really like extlinux for the reasons outlined earlier[0], i don't think it's a good default for everyone and anything. > HPA has been an active upstream maintainer all > this time AFAIK. indeed, he's an excellent upstream in every aspect. Regards, Daniel [0] http://blog.daniel-baumann.ch/2009/11/30#20091130_extlinux-as-alternative-bootloader -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bfd692b.1010...@debian.org
