Re: [leaf-user] Booting from USB - TRAC Ticket #71

[david M b. <le...@da...>]

On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 12:10 +0100, davidMbrooke wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 10:41 +0200, Per Sjoholm wrote:
> > 
> > Best would be to have a disk referenced with UUID solution.
> > 
> > /Per
> 
> Agreed. Turns out this is easy enough to implement with the "findfs"
> utility. You say:
>     findfs UUID=my-uuid   or   findfs LABEL=my-label
> and findfs says e.g.
>     /dev/sda1
> If LEAFCFG or PKGPATH includes UUID= or LABEL= we could automatically
> run findfs to (try to) map that to a device name.
> 
> The downside is that /sbin/findfs (and its shared libs) needs to be
> added to initrd. I've done some quick tests and the i686 initrd grows by
> 62K which is about 5%.
> 
> This would be a nice enhancement if we can live with the initd size
> increase. We should at least add the utilities to hdsupp.lrp so that
> someone can customize their own initrd if they so desire.
> 
> I have created TRAC ticket #71
> https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/leaf/ticket/71
> 
> david

Hi all,

I propose to Close this TRAC ticket as "fixed" since as of 4.3.1-beta1:
   - The necessary utilities are now in hdsupp.lrp
   - There is some new logic in the default /init script which runs the
new utilities if they are present and LEAFCFG specifies LABEL= or UUID=
   - I have added some guidance notes to the Wiki at
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/leaf/index.php?title=Bering-uClibc_4.x_-_User_Guide_-_Basic_Configuration_-_LEAF_Packages#Configuring_syslinux.cfg_or_isolinux.cfg 

david