On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Samuel Thibault
wrote:
> Justus Winter, le Fri 16 Jan 2015 11:15:37 +0100, a écrit :
>> Quoting David Michael (2014-09-18 23:14:17)
>> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Justus Winter
>> > <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
>> > > Bind the startup server to
Hi,
> > Well, the overall question is: Is it worth an effort ?
> I guess it could. Then we wouldn't need to make /dev a tmpfs and
> create it's content on demand. Then again, doing so is easy enough
> (with the bootshell).
So this discussion was mainly for my curiosity.
If the need arises to im
Quoting Thomas Schmitt (2015-01-30 14:25:50)
> Hi,
>
> Justus Winter wrote:
> > 3. Remaster using `grub-mkrescue --output=my-bootshell.iso /=master'.
>
> The beauty of grub-mkrescue.
Yes, it's super nice :)
> > To start an translator on demand, the file system needs to support
> > storing a pass
Hi,
Justus Winter wrote:
> 3. Remaster using `grub-mkrescue --output=my-bootshell.iso /=master'.
The beauty of grub-mkrescue.
More people should use it and increase its weight in GRUB2.
Even in the simple BIOS case, it already hides these expert
options of xorriso:
--grub2-mbr ...disk.path..
On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 13:02 +0100, Justus Winter wrote:
> Quoting Thomas Schmitt (2015-01-30 12:04:57)
> > Would that support be desirable and what properties would
> > an ISO 9660 filesystem have to provide ?
>
> To start an translator on demand, the file system needs to support
> storing a pass
Quoting Thomas Schmitt (2015-01-30 12:04:57)
> > http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/bootshell0129.iso.xz
>
> Was it produced by grub-mkrescue ?
Yes. It is very easy to remaster:
1. Unpack bootshellXX.iso into a dir, e.g. `master'. Use
/hurd/iso9660fs on Hurd, or fuseiso, or file-roller on Li
Hi,
> http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/bootshell0129.iso.xz
Was it produced by grub-mkrescue ?
> * Boots an unmodified Debian (debootstrap --variant=minbase) from a
> readonly filesystem that does not support passive translators
> (iso9660fs).
Would that support be desirable and what pr
Quoting Samuel Thibault (2015-01-30 02:02:33)
> Hello,
>
> About the Hurd news in my slides, in recent work, I have listed:
>
> - Init system decoupled
> - Allows to use standard Debian sysvinit scripts!
> - Using dmd for Guix & such
> - Distributed mtab translator
> - Various optimizations
>
Hello :)
I produced a demo live cd using my new bootshell:
http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/booting-debian-preboot.png
http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/booting-debian-boot.png
http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/bootshell0129.iso.xz
Notable features:
* Boots an unmodified Debian (deboo
