[Voyage-linux] feature request - provide extlinux as an alternate boot loader

["Arun Khan (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान)"]

Hi Punky,

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE
<punkytse at punknix.com> wrote:
> On 10/19/2012 8:04 PM, "Arun Khan (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान)" wrote:
>>
>> Hi Punky,
>>
>>
>>
>> This is a formal request to incorporate extlinux as a choice in the
>> install script.
>
> Hi Arun,
> If there was problem in lilo, we should find ways to fix it.

I did report the 'lilo' installation problem in this mailing list but
no one responded.  Off the cuff, I think the problem is with the
string containing characters like "0.8" as reported by lilo.   Please
see my posts mentioned below.

Ref: <http://list.voyage.hk/pipermail/voyage-linux/2012-October/015372.html>
 and
        <http://list.voyage.hk/pipermail/voyage-linux/2012-October/015377.html>

> I personally
> don't think that extlinux is needed.  But if there are volunteers want to
> enhance voyage.update, I am welcome to incorporate patches.

If the lilo problem is fixed then extlinux is not a priority.
Anyway,  I have documented a procedure to install extlinux here:
<http://list.voyage.hk/pipermail/voyage-linux/2012-October/015369.html>

Nonetheless, I will explore how it can be incorporated into the
voyage.update script (it will require the syslinux and extlinux
packages to be included in the base tar ball or the LiveCD.   At the
moment, I am somewhat stretched for time but I will look into it for
sure.

-- Arun Khan