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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:15:19 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: syslinux

Vasiliy,

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 08:20:04PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> I've just committed ISOLINUX support for our ISOs.  Please test it,
> all menu choises should work just fine.  Probably we want to change the
> menu visualization - AFAIU it is much more customizable than lilo's menu.
> Anyway, now it should be bootable.

...but not installable (I did not try, though), because you do:

# ISOLINUX doesn't respect symlinks :(
mv "$KERNEL_NAME" vmlinuz

whereas in owl-setup we have:

/* RPM'ed kernel - only copy the symlink */
    the_iface->ExecWindow("Symlinking the default kernel...");
    ExecAndWait(the_config->CpPath().c_str(),
                "-pP",
                the_config->DefaultKernel().c_str(),
                the_config->TargetKernel().c_str(), (const char *)0);

Please correct this in some way, maybe by patching syslinux to respect
symlinks (while doesn't it?)

Thanks,

Alexander

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