Hi,
currently, live-installer supports two installation modes, in a nutshell:
* 'normal' mode: unpacking squashfs to /target, removing live-*
packages, result: regular non-live system.
* 'live' mode: unpacking squashfs to /target, keeping live-*
packages, adding 'plainroot' bootparameter, result: live system
we intend to add a third, 'real live/dump' mode (name not yet clear):
* ${new_mode}: copying squashfs to /target, rerunning bootloader
for target device, result: live system
in order to do that, and since we cannot rely on mounting the squashfs
for writing the bootloader from 'within' the live system to the target
disk, we need the bootloader available in d-i itself.
since in d-i, normal .deb packages cannot be installed (that would be in
the pool of the live-media), we need a udeb.
i therefore intend to add a syslinux-udeb shipping two files: mbr.bin
(~440byte) and syslinux (~55k). please give the required ack in order to
allow me to proceed with the upload of syslinux (which has to go through
NEW for that).
Regards,
Daniel
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