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and trivial fix for comment in conf
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We allow a password to be set in /etc/update-extlinux.conf. Instructions for
generating this are in /etc/update-extlinux.conf. For reference, here is another
(equivalent) way to generate the MD5 password: openssl passwd -1 -salt yy pass
If one sets a password, one will presumably want to make
/etc/update-extlinux.conf world-unreadable. We don't do that for you; however
we do make sure when a password is present to make the /boot/extlinux.conf
files we generate be world-unreadable.
Of the auto-generated entries, only HDT (if this is generated) is now
configured to respect the password; however, you can include "MENU PASSWD" in
any entries you put in /etc/update-extlinux.d/.
For example, I configure my BIOS to only boot from the internal drive, but I
have an entry in /etc/update-extlinux.d that permits chain-booting from a USB
key, and I have this entry configured to also require the password. (The BIOS
is also passworded, so that these settings can't be changed willy-nilly.)
Conflicts:
main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf
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HDT provides a curses-like interface to display lots of hardware info
about your machine at bootloader time.
We don't install /boot/hdt.c32, but if it's present (it can be copied from
/usr/share/syslinux/hdt.c32), we add a menu entry for it---in preference to,
rather than in addition to, memtest, since HDT has a menu entry which invokes
memtest.
Using HDT to its full capacity requires finding or generating modules.pcimap
and pci.ids files for your machine, and installing them in /boot. We might want
to document this, which I don't here (but the online docs for HDT do). These
aren't required to use other functionality of HDT; and it's pretty useful
already without those.
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We don't install /boot/reboot.c32, but if it's present (it can be copied from
/usr/share/syslinux/reboot.c32), we add a menu entry for it---just like
with memtest.
Add a comment to /etc/update-extlinux.conf stating this.
It'd already be possible to get a reboot entry using the
/etc/update-extlinux.d/ folder, but this patch provides a more intelligent
framework with nicer layout.
The syslinux sourceball also provides a shutdown module, but I couldn't get this to
work and looking at the sources reveals it to be for machines with APM enabled.
Not sure how many machines that applies to anymore.
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Add a blank line between any entries added from /etc/update-extlinux.d/*.
Move the memtest entry (if any) after a separator line, below these.
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If xen.gz is present, there are multiple kernels, and later ones lack an
initramfs, they'll currently be (wrongly) configured to use a initramfs anyway.
Fixed.
We also refactor the check for /boot/initramfs-$tag, and configure this using a
separate INITRD line, instead of adding it to the APPEND line. In passing, this
also closes a second might-use-a-stale-initramfs bug.
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so extlinux.conf don't end up as world writeable
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- rename /etc/extlinux-conf to /etc/update-extlinux.conf
- Do not exit with fail if update-extlinux.conf is missing
- Always warn if root= is not defined in update-extlinux.conf
- Try harder to detect the root device by parsing /proc/mounts
- Exit with error if we cannot detect the Root device
- Rename fancy_menu to vesa_menu
- Unifiy the code generating vesa/standard menus
- Keep a backup of old extlinux.conf
- add "overwrite" config option so it is possible to skip overwriting
the extlinux.conf.
- Added a post-upgrade that imports current extlinux.conf to
update-extlinux.conf
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