From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35077) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKVqf-0003Es-IW for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:22:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKVqc-0004Uo-F3 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:22:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:41372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dKVqc-0004Ui-BE for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:22:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKVqc-0000KG-4v for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:22:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#26339] "extlinux", "extlinux" gpt, bootloader-configuration without package nor installer Resent-Message-ID: From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) References: <20170402134916.2871-1-m.othacehe@gmail.com> <20170610085327.1353-1-m.othacehe@gmail.com> <87lgozyl52.fsf@gnu.org> <8760g2oqzc.fsf@gmail.com> <20170611115457.72395d51@scratchpost.org> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 22:20:54 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20170611115457.72395d51@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Sun, 11 Jun 2017 11:54:57 +0200") Message-ID: <874lvl555l.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: 26339@debbugs.gnu.org Hi, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > Not sure why this goes into extlinux. Extlinux is just a configuration s= tandard. It wouldn't have those installation files "mbr.bin", "gptmbr.bin". > > According to http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=3DMbr it seems = these are part of the syslinux bootloader distribution. > > It was weird like that before patch 504 but I don't think it makes sense = to conflate extlinux with syslinux. Oh I understand better now (sorry for not reading messages in the right order), and I agree with you. If =E2=80=9Cextlinux=E2=80=9D is just the name of the configuration file fo= rmat, I would argue in favor of having (gnu bootloaders extlinux) simply provide =E2=80=98extlinux-configuration-file=E2=80=99. It should not provide =E2= =80=98install-extlinux=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98extlinux-bootloader=E2=80=99 at all. Instead these should go to (gnu bootloaders syslinux), with s/extlinux/syslinux/. In addition, I think {extlinux,syslinux}.scm and guix.texi should provide references to the relevant bits of upstream documentation (documentation for the extlinux format, documentation for the syslinux MBR and GPT bootloaders, etc.) This will be useful for those of us who=E2=80=99re not familiar with the thing (like me :-)). Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.