Changeset 3377 in MondoRescue for branches/3.2/mindi/README.ia64


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Timestamp:
May 6, 2015, 1:10:17 PM (9 years ago)
Author:
Bruno Cornec
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  • Rename mr_parted2fdisk to mr-parted2fdisk for consistency with all other new mr-* commands
  • Adds functions mr_center_string and mr_popup_and_get_string with dynamic allocation to solve a memory allocation issue reported on the ML
  • Fix mr_boot_type to detect correctly a UEFI based system
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  • branches/3.2/mindi/README.ia64

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    33Linux distributions on ia64 uses a different file table format than on i386, called GPT instead of MBR. The fdisk command used by mindi/mondo to determine all aspects related to the disc hasn't been adapted yet to handle GPT. Only the parted command is able to do it.
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    5 So a perl script called mr_parted2fdisk was written that will take as input all the order that mindi/mondo pass to fdisk, translate them to be given to parted and print the result in fdisk format. So this is a filter allowing fdisk replacement. It's only used on ia64. On other archs, mr_parted2fdisk is a link to fdisk.
     5So a perl script called mr-parted2fdisk was written that will take as input all the order that mindi/mondo pass to fdisk, translate them to be given to parted and print the result in fdisk format. So this is a filter allowing fdisk replacement. It's only used on ia64. On other archs, mr-parted2fdisk is a link to fdisk.
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    7 Thus mindi/mondorestore commands launched by root will pass all their call to mr_parted2fdisk on ia64 instead of the real fdisk, and be able to support the GPT format. It will call fdisk and parted for its work.  (Note again that on ia32 parte2fdisk is in fact a link to fdisk to avoid any compatibility issue)
     7Thus mindi/mondorestore commands launched by root will pass all their call to mr-parted2fdisk on ia64 instead of the real fdisk, and be able to support the GPT format. It will call fdisk and parted for its work.  (Note again that on ia32 parte2fdisk is in fact a link to fdisk to avoid any compatibility issue)
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    99The install.sh script will setup everything correctly for you.
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    11 Note that mr_parted2fdisk supports currently only the -l and -s options as well as the commands p,n,d,w,t,a,q
     11Note that mr-parted2fdisk supports currently only the -l and -s options as well as the commands p,n,d,w,t,a,q
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    1313On Itanium systems you won't generally find an installed isolinux.bin file which is required by mindi to create the bootable images. You'll generally have to take an i386 package for your distribution and install it on your itanium system so that you provide the required missing file.
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    1818Bruno.
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    20 2015-03-21 tool renamed to mr_parted2fdisk
     202015-03-21 tool renamed to mr-parted2fdisk
    21212013-06-08 no binary made anymore, only perl scripts
    22222005-12-12 parted2fdisk used everywhere
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