From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:25:20 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] new package - generate iso with isolinux bootloader In-Reply-To: <52E8A720.1010801@mind.be> References: <1376644934-4302-1-git-send-email-jean.sorgemoel@laposte.net> <5213ECA4.9030405@mind.be> <20140128172502.171b2f84@skate> <52E7E9E4.20400@mind.be> <20140128223929.3101c67a@skate> <52E8A720.1010801@mind.be> Message-ID: <20140129092520.4ea8141e@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com