[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] new package - generate iso with isolinux bootloader

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Arnout, Jean,

On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:00:48 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > Aaah, interesting, I didn't know that. So it would probably make a lot
> > of sense to improve the ISO9660 support to:
> >
> >   * Generate just an ISO9660 root filesystem image by default
> >
> >   * Optionally, make it bootable using either Grub or isolinux
> >
> >   * Optionally, replace the ISO9660 root filesystem by an initramfs
> 
>   The third one fits better in the genimages approach IMHO. The second 
> one as well - except that that is not possible, once the iso image is 
> created you can't make it bootable anymore. So yes, I think that would 
> really improve the iso9660 support.

I agree.

>   However, I would also be happy with a patch that simply adds an option 
> to use isolinux instead of grub for the current iso9660 infrastructure.

Yes, this would be interesting regardless of the other possible
improvements discussed above.

Bottomline: Jean, if you could add the possibility of using isolinux as
part of the existing fs/iso9660 stuff, that would be great.

Thanks a lot!

Thomas
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