Re: Split memdisk out of syslinux package?
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 03:16:25PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
However, to get that /syslinux/memdisk boot image,
I had to download the syslinux rpm and use rpm2cpio
to extract it - all the info I could find in the
fedora docs seem to indicate that actually installing
the syslinux rpm will result in getting switched to
the syslinux boot loader.
I don't think that's the case.
Specifically, the bootloader will be updated when the syslinux-extlinux RPM
is installed if and only if /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf or
/boot/extlinux.conf exist, which they won't unless you've created them.
The _base_ syslinux package has no such logic at all.
On the other hand, switching to extlinux as your bootloader isn't a bad
idea.
On the other, other hand, I'm all for better subpackaging in the syslinux
RPM. It just has never been a priority before.
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