Hi Tom, On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 at 16:53, Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 03:24:02PM +0000, Simon Glass wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 at 15:04, Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 02:25:58PM +0000, Simon Glass wrote: > > > > > > > Any 'bootable' flag in a DOS partition causes boostd to only scan > > > > bootable partitions for that media. This can mean that extlinux.conf > > > > files on the root disk are missed. > > > > > > > > Put this logic behind a flag and update the documentation. > > > > > > > > For now, the flag is enabled, to preserve existing behaviour. Future > > > > work may provide a command (or some other mechanism) to control this. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]> > > > > > > Isn't this backwards as the existing behavior (prior to bootstd) was to > > > scan and use these files, and so that's the behavior we need to preserve > > > by default. > > > > Not so far as I know, but I've already spent too much time trying to > > decode those scripts. > > > > If you look at scan_dev_for_boot_part, that is what I was trying to > > replicate with bootstd. > > The feedback from the community call where this was brought up was that > it used to work and now didn't, I thought. Heinrich, I think you had one > of the cases here (something about RISC-V and multiple distros?) or am I > misremembering?
OK let's see if Heinrich chimes in. Are there notes for the call? It would help me if they could all be in a shared document, like we used to use[1]. Regards, Simon [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YBOMsbM19uSFyoJWnt7-PsOLBaevzQUgV-hiR88a5-o/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.byz50ta07iok
