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Bug#793157: flash-kernel: syslinux-style boot configuration on recent u-boot versions



Package: flash-kernel
Severity: normal

syslinux-style /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf superseed boot.scr in recent u-boot
versions and seems to be the way forward for u-boot configuration, but I
couldn't find anything to automatically generate them in Debian.

Long story short, I manually installed Debian Jessie (as well as
linux-image-4.0.0-2-armmp and u-boot from u-boot-sunxi=2015.04+dfsg1-2) on an
A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 from Olimex but couldn't get it to boot (even with the
boot.scr created by flash-kernel when invoked in a chroot with
“FK_MACHINE="Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2" flash-kernel”) until I created the
simple /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file attached.

I'm not sure whether flash-kernel is the correct package to implement this
feature, but there should be a way to automaticaly generate such files.
menu title LIME2 boot menu
timeout 10
ontimeout linux
LABEL linux
        KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-4.0.0-2-armmp
        INITRD /boot/initrd.img-4.0.0-2-armmp
        fdt /boot/dtb-4.0.0-2-armmp
        append root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 ro rootwait

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