[syslinux] Failure to boot isohybrid image from USB stick

[Dag Wieers]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Thomas Schmitt wrote:

> i wrote:
>
> If really a RIP-Revived project emerges then i
> could help to cover the CD/DVD/BD part.
> Other parts would need other sleuths who
> retrieve relevant packages for inclusion.
>
> Nevertheless, most needed would be a chief
> maintainer who can put together all the
> finds with the base system.

I have started to implement an initramfs creation tool that based on a 
fileset will start to collect all files (and dependencies) from the host 
system and include them in the initramfs. The code is pretty simple and 
should be considered as a prototype to experiment.

It also does upx compression of binaries, but I haven't touched the 
initscripts (they now include the ones from CentOS5). You can find the 
code on:

 	http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/tools/centos-rescue/

There was also a small discussion on the rpmforge mailinglist after the 
commit and I want to drive a discussion on the centos-devel mailinglist. 
The aim is to have it use both the centos kernel, as well as a very recent 
kernel.

Unfortunately, whereas the uncompressed size of RIPLinux is 90M, ours is 
already 105M (and not including everything RIPLinux has).

My aim is also to provide a nice bootloader using a dynamic menu-system 
based on syslinux. So that you could drop a kernel in a directory and then 
select it from the bootloader. Selecting the keymap or architecture from 
the bootloader. Things like that.

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