[Mageia-dev] isolinux questions

[Thomas Backlund]

Frank Griffin skrev 30.8.2012 15:23:
> 1) What is isolinux/alt1 these days ?  Googling comes up with nothing
> except pointers to various repos and mirrors where it exists, and
> there's nothing in the isolinux help files about it.
>

You mean besides the advanced help info:
http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/isolinux/advanced.msg

Basically it's the server kernel instead of desktop586,
as some hw does not boot on desktop586.

also as its server kernel is supports xen installs.

> 2) Is there an isolinux vmlinux/all.rdz variant to match
> boot-nonfree.iso/all-nonfree.img ?

Not separate at this point...

>  Would it be a lot of trouble to have
> one (alt2 ?) ?  I'm guessing these files already exist, but are embedded
> in the iso/img variant.

Not tested / decided yet...

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Thomas