Bug 208106 – netboot2 target can't use root_overlay.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects

[Description Justin Bronder (RETIRED) 2008-01-29 22:01:06 UTC]

In order to pass a new a new init to genkernel when building a netboot2 target, one needs to get that file into the the buildroot.  However, I don't see any clean method to do this without using root_overlay.

A one line change to netboot2_target.py fixes this.


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Justin Bronder (RETIRED) 2008-01-29 22:02:26 UTC]

Created attachment 142158 [details, diff]
patch

This adds root_overlay to netboot2.

[Comment 2 Justin Bronder (RETIRED) 2008-02-05 20:47:46 UTC]

Well that, or adding netboot2/linuxrc is just as much fun :)

[Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-02-06 00:33:31 UTC]

Eh, I hate having the overlay just for the purpose of copying in a file to use with genkernel. However, the change isn't going to hurt anything.

[Comment 4 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-02-06 00:37:43 UTC]

This is in SVN.

[Comment 5 Justin Bronder (RETIRED) 2008-02-06 15:27:34 UTC]

Created attachment 142832 [details, diff]
netboot2 + linuxrc support.

I didn't like using the root_overlay either.  Patch adds netboot2/linuxrc key and also adds --initramfs-overlay to the genkernel arguments for netboot2 targets.

[Comment 6 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) 2008-02-06 15:40:19 UTC]

Works for me. I've applied the patch as is. I didn't know the foo/linuxrc option even existed. That certainly makes things easier :P

The automatic --initramfs-overlay is something I've been meaning to look into and never gotten around to.

[Comment 7 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2008-06-19 16:05:34 UTC]

This is in catalyst 2.0.6, which is in the tree and stable.  If there's still a problem with this, please REOPEN this bug.

Thanks!