[syslinux] Fedora 37 release notes

[William R. Somsky]

A bit, but we need to be able to enter the DNS name for the machine being
installed to be passed in the kickstart URL, plus several other options.
A menu list isn't sufficient for this.  What we need it a script that
can parse an input command line and construct the URL from the info
it gleans from that line.

Thanks for the info, however.


On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 11:51:37AM -0800, solarflow99 wrote:
> Not sure about that, haven't used lua.  But I was able to replicate the
> same menu that syslinux used to have, and you can scroll to select the
> choice you want.  The link that calls kickstart for my RHEL9 menuentry
> looks like this:
> 
> linux images/rhel/9.0/vmlinuz inst.stage2=
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://192.168.10.205/repo/rhel9/base__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jX3PUIl8XPZRzBawZqbOVCjWUxTwoqL7Jpb1LBJBWYSxoluDL4amD2h40Hm5kTkU9yBCuxuoCWQ0txD5ZU8$  inst.ip=dhcp inst.kssendmac inst.ks=
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://192.168.10.205/ks/rhel9.cfg__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jX3PUIl8XPZRzBawZqbOVCjWUxTwoqL7Jpb1LBJBWYSxoluDL4amD2h40Hm5kTkU9yBCuxuoCWQ03Vhmyjo$ 
> 
> Hope that helps..
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 11:42 AM William R. Somsky <somsky at uw.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Do they have some sort of interpreter available for grub2?
> > The equivalent of the lua of syslinux?  Something that will
> > take a typed command line and use it to create the needed
> > URL for fetching a CGI generated kickstart file?
> >
> > - WRSomsky
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 11:37:38AM -0800, solarflow99 wrote:
> > > sounds like syslinux is deprecated, other distros will probably follow.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 11:03 AM William R. Somsky <somsky at uw.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > > That sounds like a pain.  I've been using syslinux w/ the lua
> > interpreter
> > > > to build a multi-version install key for work that allows a short
> > command
> > > > line to give all the needed details for a scripted install.  Hopefully
> > > > that will still function... :-/
> > > >
> > > > - WRSomsky
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 10:56:43PM -0800, solarflow99 via Syslinux
> > wrote:
> > > > > FYI,
> > > > >
> > > > > *In previous Fedora releases, the minimal installer image (boot.iso)
> > used
> > > > > the syslinux bootloader when booting on systems using BIOS firmware,
> > > > while
> > > > > on UEFI systems GRUB2 is used. However, the syslinux project is no
> > longer
> > > > > being developed upstream. Therefore, starting with Fedora 37,
> > boot.iso
> > > > > images will use GRUB2 on both BIOS and UEFI-based systems.*
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> > Dr. William R. Somsky                                      somsky at uw.edu
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> > Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560                  206-616-2954
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Dr. William R. Somsky           	                   somsky at uw.edu
Department of Physics, Box 351560		    B217 Phys-Astro Bldg
Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560		    206-616-2954