Salix Live Xfce 13.37 beta

[Shador]

I don't think so grub2 supports ext2/3/4. To me the problem seems to be that the iso is in a subdirectory (salixlive), but the salix-xfce-....live file and all other files are expected in the root. Is there subdirectory support, JRD?

[JRD]

When I tested, in grub2 command line, when I've done

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ls(hd0,1)/

it answers me "unknown file system". So obviously it cannot find the /boot/grub/GRUB_1.99-20110823-1234. I've tested this at work using VirtualBox, some maybe I made a weird error in creating the ext4 filesystem...

About you're question of supporting subdirectory, no it doesn't support it. This is simply too much complicated to support it with grub2 current command tools.

[Shador]

When I tested, in grub2 command line, when I've done

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ls(hd0,1)/

it answers me "unknown file system". So obviously it cannot find the /boot/grub/GRUB_1.99-20110823-1234. I've tested this at work using VirtualBox, some maybe I made a weird error in creating the ext4 filesystem...

About you're question of supporting subdirectory, no it doesn't support it. This is simply too much complicated to support it with grub2 current command tools.

I just want to know whether the live boot scripts support it. It's obvious that searching the whole fs for the file including subdirectories is too time consuming. But there could be a way to tell the boot scripts in which subdirectory to search. Obviously the bootloader itself runs to early to acquire such input.
Anyway, I don't consider this feature sufficiently crucial to possibly slow down a 13.37 live release.

[JRD]

I just want to know whether the live boot scripts support it. It's obvious that searching the whole fs for the file including subdirectories is too time consuming. But there could be a way to tell the boot scripts in which subdirectory to search. Obviously the bootloader itself runs to early to acquire such input.
Anyway, I don't consider this feature sufficiently crucial to possibly slow down a 13.37 live release.

I agree. Doable, but not for this version, and the bootloader must still be on the root FS.

[ikke]

Have been using now Salix Live Xfce 13.37 beta (installed on a 1 GB usbstick ext3 formatted grub1 : see earlier) on a daily basis for quite a long time. And even in rather rough circumstances. (Africa)

The only small problem I have encountered is that sometimes the system refuses to shutdown.

So guess the time has come to drop the 'beta' and provide the definitive version.

Regards,

[Akuna]

RC1 version is now ready for testing => http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2833