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On my system, the Sandisk Cruzer USB Stick has file names in /dev/disk/by-id/, that contain
colons: this causes lilo to fail when using one of these files as a boot disk. This patch
replaces the failure with a warning.
--- ./src/geometry.c.orig 2015-11-21 18:50:18.000000000 -0500
+++ ./src/geometry.c 2016-12-28 18:27:24.322516088 -0500
@@ -1357,16 +1357,12 @@
int geo_open(GEOMETRY *geo,const char *name,int flags)
{
- char *here;
- int user_dev,block_size;
+ int user_dev = -1,block_size;
struct stat st;
- if ((here = strrchr(name,':')) == NULL) user_dev = -1;
- else {
- *here++ = 0;
- warn("%s:BIOS syntax is no longer supported.\n Please use a "
- "DISK section.", name);
- user_dev = to_number(here);
+ if (strrchr(name,':') != NULL) {
+ warn("%s:BIOS syntax is no longer supported: "
+ "Treating as a device file.", name);
}
if ((geo->fd = open(name,flags)) < 0)
die("open %s: %s",name,strerror(errno));
This does not even compile here. Besides, for an update of eudev I'll need some justification. Messing with (e)udev is generally not a good idea to do for no reason.
This does not even compile here. Besides, for an update of eudev I'll need some justification. Messing with (e)udev is generally not a good idea to do for no reason.
Looks like the newer gperf is causing it (the eudev we're carrying now doesn't compile either), but there's a patch.
Still, in the complete absence of reported eudev problems I'm not confident that fixing what doesn't seem to be broken is a good idea.
Seems like simple bugfixes here, so I'll probably take it.
This does not even compile here. Besides, for an update of eudev I'll need some justification. Messing with (e)udev is generally not a good idea to do for no reason.
Ok, Pat, it's just suggestion
just for your info, i have aplied this two patch and it compil and work without problem here:
I have been trying to dabble with LUKs and LVM - it would be kinda cool to have sort of an option in the installer itself to set up a LUKs/LVM in the advanced settings
I have been trying to dabble with LUKs and LVM - it would be kinda cool to have sort of an option in the installer itself to set up a LUKs/LVM in the advanced settings
But would it make sense?
It's probably a lot of effort GUI-ing the commands, and for advanced setups you're probably better off with command line.
My point is that you need to understand what you're doing, and once you know, you probably don't want the GUI anymore.
But would it make sense?
It's probably a lot of effort GUI-ing the commands, and for advanced setups you're probably better off with command line.
My point is that you need to understand what you're doing, and once you know, you probably don't want the GUI anymore.
Just my personal opinion.
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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski
Thanks you for making me laughing with tears!
For Gods sake, where/when you seen a Graphical User Interface into Slackware Setup, about which you talk with serenity?
With some huge optimism, we can talk eventually about a Text User Interface, aka TUI...
Last edited by Darth Vader; 03-26-2017 at 02:21 PM.
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