kunkku/aports/main/syslinux/update-extlinux, branch master

main/syslinux: improve portability of update-extlinux

2015-06-26T12:28:42+00:00

minor fix that makes it work with bash

main/syslinux: make trigger not fail on lxc

2015-05-19T09:29:27+00:00

on lxc we dont have the boot device available so extlinux will fail.
We cannot check for `openrc --sys` because apk run the trigger in chroot
and grsecurity will prevent openrc access /proc/1/environment.

So we simply add a --warn-only option and use that from trigger.

main/syslinux: update-extlinux use 'vanilla' as label in menu

2014-07-16T08:08:15+00:00

main/syslinux: fix update-extlinux to handle vanilla kernel

2014-06-25T07:05:17+00:00

the vanilla kernel does not have any -* suffix so it needs special
handling.

main/syslinux: add support for serial console in update-extlinux

2014-05-29T12:19:06+00:00

fixes #2761

main/syslinux: update-extlinux: autodetect poweroff.c32

2013-06-30T12:53:03+00:00

and trivial fix for comment in conf

main/syslinux: use cmp -s instead of cmp --quiet due to busybox

2013-06-30T11:33:25+00:00

main/syslinux: hooks for bootloader password

2013-06-30T11:20:34+00:00

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

main/syslinux: don't create backup when no changes

2013-06-30T11:20:13+00:00

main/syslinux: add Hardware Detection Tool entry

2013-06-30T11:19:59+00:00

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.