extlinux
Hey,
I have been using Debian Live to use Debian at work (to avoid Win),
and so far I have to say it's been painless and loving it.
Now, on to my purpose here. I build hdd images, using syslinux as the
bootloader. Recently my squashfs file has grown over 4 GB. lb switched
to NTFS which brings my system to its knees and I have to hard reboot
(it seems this is common). A build using NTFS would always require me
to a hard shut down.
This led me to investigate using ext4 as my binary filesystem.
Unfortunately it seems it is not supported for hdd images. I formatted
my USB stick with ext4, copied the files, and installed extlinux.
Worked perfectly.
This led me to modify binary_hdd and copy/modify binary_syslinux for
use with extlinux. So far, so good. I have only tested a small number
of cases, but I have been successful in creating bootable images, and
upon writing to a USB stick, it boots fine on several PCs as well.
Is there any interest in the script? If so, is it preferred as a diff
as several files are involved? And what are the preffered parameters
to use for diff for inclusion of a patch?
On a side note, after upgrading recently to 4.0~alpha33-1 on jessie, I
get the following error when running 'lb build --debug':
usage: lb bootstrap-includes [arguments]
lb bootstrap-includes: error: unrecognized arguments: --debug
Thank you for your great work,
Anthony
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