Re: Possible bug in "Enable write-mode for persistency related devices in readonly/forensic mode"

2015-12-31 Thread Michael Prokop
* intrigeri [Thu Dec 31, 2015 at 07:41:50PM +0100]: > in > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-live/live-boot.git/commit/?id=e3cbd82426f1710dba545ee0f44b0731a45e0b6a, > it looks like "if grep -qe persistence /proc/cmdline" will be verified > if the 'nopersistence' boot option is used, which may

Re: Bug#759744: debian-cd: loopback.cfg support for booting ISOs from within GRUB

2014-08-29 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, Cc-ing also debian-live ML to make sure they are aware of the issue. * Michael Prokop [Fri Aug 29, 2014 at 11:28:13PM +0200]: > I'm hereby following up our discussion we - Steve McIntyre, Colin > Watson and me - had at DebConf14. > Quoting from http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wik

Re: Grml.org patch bomb

2011-07-28 Thread Michael Prokop
* intrigeri [Thu Jul 28, 2011 at 11:43:13AM +0200]: > I quickly reviewed most of your patches. Great! [Just commenting on the ones that need clarification.] > Michael Prokop wrote (26 Jul 2011 21:32:27 GMT) : > > - umount ${mountpoint} > > +

Grml.org patch bomb

2011-07-26 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, once again a patch bomb by the Grml project. Our git tree is available at: git://git.grml.org/live-boot-grml.git Inside debian/patches/ the following patches might be interesting for inclusing in mainline: 01_fix_output_file.patch 07_support_findiso.patch 10_validateroot.patch 16_nodhcp.p

Re: live.cfg menu item in syslinux theme not working

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Prokop
* Daniel Ellison wrote: > On 11-06-20 02:35 PM, Daniel Ellison wrote: >> For the moment I've renamed the two files back to vmlinuz and initrd.img >> and have installed that hook. I'm running the build again in the off >> chance that it works this time :) > Holy &^%&!! That worked! Hmmm... I don't

Re: Debian Live at DebConf 11

2011-05-18 Thread Michael Prokop
* Daniel Baumann wrote: > quick poll.. who of us will attend DebConf 11 this year? > assuming there will be sponsorship, I'll be there from 17th of July to > 30th of July. I plan to be there from 23rd to 31th (so just 1 day DebCamp but full DebConf). -mika- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#602900: live-initramfs: bnx2 module cannot find firmware

2010-11-09 Thread Michael Prokop
* Stefan Goetz [Tue Nov 09, 2010 at 09:10:30AM +]: > I use a live initramfs for netbooting an installation system (FAI) > on a DELL R710 server with Broadcom 5709C cards which depend on > the bnx2 kernel module which in turn depends on bnx2 firmware. > After including this firmware in the in

Bug#536728: persistent devices name are supported via persistent-subtext boot option

2010-09-27 Thread Michael Prokop
* Marco Amadori [Mon Sep 27, 2010 at 03:15:00PM +0200]: > In data lunedì 27 settembre 2010 13:13:21, Michael Prokop ha scritto: > > Marco, could you please document this feature? > It is already documented in the live-manual: > http://live.debian.net/manual/en/html/persistence

Bug#536728: closed by Marco Amadori (persistent devices name are supported via persistent-subtext boot option)

2010-09-27 Thread Michael Prokop
* Debian Bug Tracking System [Mon Sep 27, 2010 at 10:30:04 +]: > #536728: support persistent devices names > It has been closed by Marco Amadori . [...] > this feature request should be available since at least version 2.0~a1-1. > It is implementeed that way: > You could specify "persist

Re: FAI 3.4.0 config space mount problem

2010-08-31 Thread Michael Prokop
* Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 08/27/2010 03:42 PM, Michael Prokop wrote: >> Patch against debian-old-1.0 (couldn't find debian-old-2.0 in >> public live-boot, though shouldn't be a difference): >> >> http://grml.org/patches/0001-workaround-aufs-issue

Re: FAI 3.4.0 config space mount problem

2010-08-27 Thread Michael Prokop
* Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 08/25/2010 01:23 AM, Michael Prokop wrote: >> @debian-live: the above mentioned issue (full quoting of mail >> therefore) should be fixed for the squeeze release, there's an >> existing workaround (see the git URL). If you need any further

Re: FAI 3.4.0 config space mount problem

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Prokop
[Cc-ing debian-live mailing list] * Jeffrey Stolte [Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 01:40:52PM -0600]: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:10:27AM -0600, Jeffrey Stolte wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 06:38:03PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: > > > * Jeffrey Stolte [Tue Aug 24, 2010 a

Re: Bug#574584: module-init-tools: modprobe is too chatty with parse_toplevel_config and parse_kcmdline

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Prokop
* Chung-chieh Shan [Thu Mar 18, 2010 at 11:43:37PM -0700]: > After I added "i915.modeset=1" to my kernel cmdline today, modprobe > started printing "options i915 modeset=1" to stdout whenever it is > invoked (even just to add or remove a non-existent module, add an > already-loaded module, or re

Re: RFC: live-initramfs 2.x features

2010-01-26 Thread Michael Prokop
* intrigeri wrote: > Michael Prokop wrote (24 Jan 2010 12:50:50 GMT) : >> But if you're working in IT forensics and/or have special security >> requirements this won't be enough. Someone could prepare a device >> that fullfills the uuid requirements but provides a

Re: RFC: live-initramfs 2.x features

2010-01-24 Thread Michael Prokop
* Daniel Baumann wrote: > Michael Prokop wrote: >> * Provide a bootoption which displays the currently executed code. >> This avoids panic on user's side if something takes longer than >> usual, so let’s inform the user instead. > what do you understand

Re: RFC: live-initramfs 2.x features

2010-01-22 Thread Michael Prokop
* Daniel Baumann wrote: [...] > As a first step, I'd like to gather a list of features (not their > implementation!, that's a step later) that you need/want/like/use/miss > from live-initramfs. So please also list things that the current > live-initramfs does. If possible, please send in your lis

Bug#555529: live-initramfs: udev no more ships /lib/vol_id, /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live-helpers needs updating

2009-11-13 Thread Michael Prokop
* Daniel Reichelt [20091113 23:22]: > since udev stops shipping /lib/udev/vol_id initramfs-tools needs updating. > According to [1], all calls to > vol_id -t > should be changed to > /sbin/blkid -o udev -p ... > Probably the initramfs-hook to copy that new binary needs updating as we

Re: lzma with debian-live was: (Bug#553707: RFH: lzma -- future of Debian squashfs-lzma)

2009-11-04 Thread Michael Prokop
* mictlan tecutli [20091104 01:19]: > > > should i change line 61 of /usr/bin/lh_source_debian from > > > "squashfs-lzma-tools" "squashfs-tools"? or is there a less hacky > > > way of doing it. > to be complete, in reality i needed to hack /usr/bin/lh_binary_rootfs > changing the "mksquashfs"

Re: lzma with debian-live was: (Bug#553707: RFH: lzma -- future of Debian squashfs-lzma)

2009-11-03 Thread Michael Prokop
* mictlan tecutli [20091103 22:54]: > i hope its okay if i follow up on the thread started with that bug > report with a question: what would be the recomended way to use > lzma compression with debian-live? > so i'm looking here: > http://grml.org/grml-live/#current_state > so i should be able

Re: Bug#553707: RFH: lzma -- future of Debian squashfs-lzma

2009-11-02 Thread Michael Prokop
[Cc-ing debian-live mailinglist, not sure whether they are interested in LZMA but if so they should be aware of it.] * Jonathan Nieder [20091103 00:14]: > I was thinking about how to bring the lzma package more up to date, > but I’m scared to do anything for fear of breaking squashfs-lzma. :) >

Re: (last) call for patches to live-initramfs 1.x

2009-10-16 Thread Michael Prokop
* Daniel Baumann wrote: > please send all patches you want to have merged in live-initramfs 1.x. > there will be a final upload next week, after which live-initramfs 1.x > is being deprecated and the work on live-initramfs 2.x starts. Ah, great to see that there's progress. JFTR: my considerati

Bug#534887: live-initramfs: Loop mounting .iso for booting from multi-purpose USB stick?

2009-07-02 Thread Michael Prokop
* Philip Hands [20090628 21:37]: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:27:30AM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: > > http://git.grml.org/?p=live-initramfs-grml.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/06_support_fromiso_isofrom.dpatch;hb=HEAD > > http://git.grml.org/?p=live-initramfs-grml.git;a=blob;f

Bug#534887: live-initramfs: Loop mounting .iso for booting from multi-purpose USB stick?

2009-06-28 Thread Michael Prokop
* Philip Hands [20090628 01:25]: > I've been trying to build a versatile USB stick, with the imntent that > it be able to choose between various images at a grub prompt. Some > .iso images (i.e. http://partedmagic.com/) are happy with this setup, > becasue once booted (via grub4dos's ability to

Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Prokop
[Cc-ing 520...@bugs.debian.org] * Michal Suchanek [20090324 18:53]: > On 03/23/2009 11:28 PM, Michael Prokop wrote: > >An approach could be to use bootfrom=.../live-media=... in such a > >situation. Michal, does this help? Would be great if you could try > >this in your &#

Bug#520923: live-initramfs: booting with a bad disk in the system takes forever

2009-03-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* Chris Lamb [20090323 17:45]: > michal.sucha...@ruk.cuni.cz wrote: > > The initramfs scripts cause Linux to read quite a few sectors from disk > > repeatedly. As a result the boot sequence is _very_ long if a disk is > > bad and returns I/O errors with delay. > Um, what do you suggest live-init

Bug#506321: live-initramfs: improve documentation for persistency feature

2008-11-20 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: live-initramfs Version: 1.139.1-4 Severity: wishlist The documentation regarding the persistency feature should be improved. The live-snapshot manpage is lacking some usage examples. I'd like to see stuff from http://live.debian.net/manual/html/persistence.html integrated within the off

Re: on the fly modules adding and removal

2008-11-19 Thread Michael Prokop
* Marco Amadori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is already supported by the boot parameter "module=" since more than one > year, although nobody uses it since that cause live-helper does not help in > creating this kind of images and thus it could have be regressed. JFYI: We at grml use modul