Changeset 3886 in MondoRescue

Timestamp:

Mar 10, 2024, 7:24:20 PM (7 weeks ago)

Author:

Bruno Cornec

Message:

Removes support for ia64 depracated in upstream kernel, and elilo

Location:

branches/3.3/mindi

Files:

• README.ia64 (deleted)
• README.uefi (modified) (2 diffs)
• deplist.d/base.conf (modified) (1 diff)
• install.sh (modified) (1 diff)
• mr-parted2fdisk (modified) (1 diff)
• rootfs/etc/init.d/rcS (modified) (1 diff)

branches/3.3/mindi/README.uefi

@@ -4 +4 @@
 
 Depending on the boot mode you use (UEFI or BIOS), mondo and mindi will have to behave accordingly.
-Depending of your choice, software configuration, you may also use GPT or MBR as a file table format. Refer to README.ia64 for more details on how mondo and mindi deal with that.
+Depending of your choice, software configuration, you may also use GPT or MBR as a file table format. 
 
+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.
+
+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 for GPT based disks. On BIOS based disks, mr-parted2fdisk is a link to fdisk.
+
+Thus mindi/mondorestore commands launched by root will pass all their call to mr-parted2fdisk on GPT based disks instead of the real fdisk, and be able to support the GPT format. It will call fdisk and parted for its work. 
+
+The install.sh script will setup everything correctly for you.
+
+Note that mr-parted2fdisk supports currently only the -l and -s options as well as the commands p,n,d,w,t,a,q
+
+On SLES 10, fdisk is not provided anymore. You'll have to rebuild the util-linux package by desactivating fdisk removal in the spec file. 
 In BIOS mode, mindi uses sylinux as boot loader for the restore media. As this doesn't work reliably yet with UEFI other strategies have been usd:
 When using a distribution like RHEL6.x, then grub 0.97 will be used as boot loader for the restore media. During tests, we had success with grub-0.97-93.el6.x86_64 part of RHEL 6.6. In particular, the version provided with RHEL 6.5 doesn't boot !
@@ -37 +48 @@
 2016-03-21 Make instructions more generic
 2015-08-28 Initial file
+2015-03-21 tool renamed to mr-parted2fdisk
+2013-06-08 no binary made anymore, only perl scripts
+2005-12-12 parted2fdisk used everywhere
+2005-03-23 Explain compilation and backup/restore split
+2004-09-16 Initial file

branches/3.3/mindi/deplist.d/base.conf

@@ -75 +75 @@
 #/usr/lib64/valgrind/
 
-# For swap uuid support, ia64 and probably then more in the future
+# For additional tools support
 /usr/bin/perl
 

branches/3.3/mindi/install.sh

@@ -69 +69 @@
     echo $ARCH | grep -E '^i[0-9]86$' &> /dev/null && ARCH=i386 && locallib=$local/lib
     echo $ARCH | grep -E '^x86_64$' &> /dev/null && locallib=$local/lib64
-    echo $ARCH | grep -E '^ia64$' &> /dev/null && locallib=$local/lib
     sublocallib="$locallib/mindi"
 else

branches/3.3/mindi/mr-parted2fdisk

@@ -6 +6 @@
 # [developed for mindi/mondo http://www.mondorescue.org]
 #
-# Aims to be architecture independant (i386/ia64)
-# Tested on ia64 with RHAS 2.1 - Mandrake 9.0 - RHEL 3.0 - SLES 10 - RHEL 5 - 
+# Aims to be architecture independant
 #
 # Copyright B. Cornec 2000-2015

branches/3.3/mindi/rootfs/etc/init.d/rcS

@@ -127 +127 @@
     chmod 666 /dev/tty* /dev/console
     # By default first serial line is configured as tty
-    # Required to have a correct serial console support (MP on ia64 or VSP with iLO e.g.)
+    # Required to have a correct serial console support (VSP with iLO e.g.)
     for i in `cat /proc/cmdline` ; do
         echo $i | grep -qi serial= && serial=`echo $i | cut -d= -f2`