On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:44:23AM +0100, David Hare wrote:
> Boruch, the iso boots from isolinux, (isolinux/live.cfg), grub is not involved.
>
> My notes (so far):
>
> What is ${netconfig_opt} in live.cfg?
>

It's coming from refracta, I guess. It should probably be removed in
the future.

> What is udevuan.cfg?

The custom configuration of the isolinux menu. It already replaces
live.cfg but I have to remove it from the image.

>
> "vga=792" may fail in some case, probably best not set as default
>

I am considering other options, but having isolinux we don't have that
much flexibility. vga=788 might be alright in general, but we will
provide several configured boot options. Links2 is not fun at all at
640x480...

> Menu entry "(nofb)": Runlevel 3 has no special meaning for this iso
> (Refracta uses it for console-only boot)
>

That's just a test. I think I will include some other boot options and
rearrange the existing ones, providing even smaller initrd images
together with the existing ones, e.g. without support for some scsi
drives which wastes a lot of initrd space and is useless in most of
the cases.

Also, I am considering the possibility of providing a customised
runlevel optimised for accessibility.

> "username=devuan" is not on cmdline, causing error messages and sudo failure
>

There is no sudo configured, and probably there will never be. There
is a root account, with credentials root/toor.

> Menu entry "nomodest" is removed (is useful for problem graphics cards)
>

See above concerning boot options.

> There are 2x initrd in /live
>

There will be even more in the future :)

> inird('s) are not xz-compressed (in /live and the squashfs)
>

I know. Will be xz-ed in the next snapshot. In principle, we could
probably remove it from the squashfs, since it is pretty useless there
anyway and we might save some good space.

> There is a symlink for /boot/initrd.img (which does not exist)
>

I know. It will be removed when we rearrange the boot options.


> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init is refracta-snapshot patched version
> (as discussed earlier)

Yes, and it is OK for the moment being, since I am using
refractasnapshot-9.2.2.

>
> (IMO) Terminus font is ugly (why not vga?)
>

I have not mangled with console fonts at all.

Thanks for the comments!

HND

KatolaZ

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