Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 10:23:06PM +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote:
>On 16/04/2020 15:40, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 05:43:36PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> >
>> > ACK.
>> >
>> > Building locally to test here...
>>
>> And I have a build that looks OK by eye. Unfortunately, my local test
>> machine (Macchiatobin) seems to be dying and I can't test this
>> effectively now. :-(
>
>Ah, OK. Thanks for spending time on this.
>
>> It needs some tiny debian-cd changes and then we'll get
>> netinst, DVD images etc. also including the graphical installer. Final
>> thing missing - the grub.cfg that's generated for the CD/DVD/USB boot
>> doesn't include menu entries for graphical boot.
>Adding INITRD_GTK to build/config/arm.cfg as in:
>
>diff --git a/build/config/arm.cfg b/build/config/arm.cfg
>index fe8cf80f9..898795658 100644
>--- a/build/config/arm.cfg
>+++ b/build/config/arm.cfg
>@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ arch_cd_info_dir: arm_grub_efi
> grub-gencfg \
> KERNEL /%install%/vmlinuz \
> INITRD /%install%/initrd.gz \
>+ INITRD_GTK /%install%/gtk/initrd.gz \
> HEADER boot/$(ARCH)/grub/grub-efi.cfg \
> > $(TEMP_CD_INFO_DIR)/grub/grub.cfg; \
> cp -a $(GRUB_FONT) $(TEMP_CD_INFO_DIR)/grub/font.pf2; \
>
>seems to be enough for the last part, I'm getting "Graphical install" and
>others in both cdrom{,/gtk}/debian-cd_info.tar.gz files' grub.cfg files.
>
>I expect that change will make the "Graphical" entries appear also on armhf
>where there isn't a cdrom/gtk build yet, so I'll also have a look at that.
>
>Hopefully I can learn enough debian-cd to build and test with proper images
>this time around :)
I'm just going to test again with that change included, then I can
push a netinst image somewhere for you to test...
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich
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