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| + | Broad plan for this week is. | ||
| + | - Make the proper git setup. -- Done. | ||
| + | - Modify the setup to directly use git repositories using symbilic links. -- done but only in my laptop, need to repeat it for alien and rom. | ||
| + | - Add server Address parameter to initram. -- done. | ||
| + | - Suppress all warnings. -- Done | ||
| + | - Use ISO insead of KNOPPIX file -- Done | ||
| + | - Make Europe and US entries in DSL. | ||
| + | - Make knoppix boot over http. | ||
| + | - Send patch to knoppix guys for discussions. | ||
| + | - Get ubuntu on BKO | ||
| + | - Add documentation about how one can use BKO. | ||
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| ==== June - 15 ==== | ==== June - 15 ==== | ||
| - | Plan for today is | + | Today I worked on getting up my repositories. |
| - | - Make the proper git setup. Add script changes to it. | + | - Made the proper git setup. Add script changes to it. |
| - Re-created and updated the repository for gpxe code modifications. [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/pravin/gpxe.git;a=tree|gpxe.git]] | - Re-created and updated the repository for gpxe code modifications. [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/pravin/gpxe.git;a=tree|gpxe.git]] | ||
| - Created and updated the repository for rom-o-matic-BKO.net code. [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/pravin/rom-o-matic-BKO.git;a=tree|rom-o-matic-BKO.git]] | - Created and updated the repository for rom-o-matic-BKO.net code. [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/pravin/rom-o-matic-BKO.git;a=tree|rom-o-matic-BKO.git]] | ||
| - Created and updated the repository for BKO code. [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/pravin/BKO.git;a=tree|BKO.git]] | - Created and updated the repository for BKO code. [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/pravin/BKO.git;a=tree|BKO.git]] | ||
| - | - Add server Address parameter to initram | + | |
| - | - Make Europe and US entries in DSL | + | ==== June - 16 ==== |
| - | - Make knoppix boot over http | + | - Created and [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/pravin/BKO.git;a=commit;h=775303ad1ce94f5e61f54875d283bb01e64ccb13|commited]] a script called [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/pravin/BKO.git;a=blob;f=pxeknife/dsl/generate_minirt24.sh;h=416c1e3738c5cce3c713378996a2d616882b0568;hb=775303ad1ce94f5e61f54875d283bb01e64ccb13|generate_minirt24.sh]] which will automatically create the //minirt24.gz// from original //minirt24.gz_orig// |
| - | - Send patch to knoppix guys for discussions | + | - Added srv_ip parameter to booting in [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/pravin/BKO.git;a=commit;h=8b2d95c573a884f923547b00496fd875aef1e5ea|commit]]. |
| - | + | - Till now, I was mounting the root filesystem extracted directly from dsl.iso. Now I want to mount entire dsl.iso, but having trobbles because | |
| + | the busybox mount does not support -o loop option and losetup is not there in busybox :-( | ||
| + | - Performance measurements for dsl [[DSLBKO]] (Note: its far from complete) | ||
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| + | ==== June - 17 ==== | ||
| + | - Finally fixed the problem of mounting ISO in initram [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/pravin/BKO.git;a=commit;h=dc692f49baac90c3c2289e81cb820027ba2161f9|commit]]. | ||
| + | - dsl provided mount does not support //-o loop// option and they dont provide //losetup// either. | ||
| + | - And to make my life more interesting, the busybox mount is very particular about the order in which you give parameters :-/. | ||
| + | - One more problem faced was that file mounted by httpfs is read-only and hence can't be mounted by //mount -o loop// command in normal modes. It has to be mounted in read-only mode with option //-o loop -o ro//. (Thanks Andytim for suggestion of using "dd". It helped in locating the bug.) | ||
| + | - One more wired observation : I could not locate the the mount used by dsl by default inside minirt24.gz. I checked the static folder, but it was not there. but when I execute mount, it picks up the default //"mount"// which behaves quite differently than the command //"busybox mount"// which is working for me at end. | ||
| + | - Seperated the http mount related code into //"mount_http_iso.sh"// [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/pravin/BKO.git;a=commit;h=e95e4c43ed8307155926fcbe6967b82492122179|commit here]] | ||
| + | - Created seperate entries for US, EUROPE. [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/pravin/BKO.git;a=commit;h=5cef3ea42f1fef9cf1df113384f8462ef50e5efd|commit here]] | ||
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| + | ==== June - 18 ==== | ||
| + | Spent most of the time in two things. | ||
| + | - Getting the modules, executable for 2.6.19 kernel used by knoppix. I am still trying to hunt down fuse.ko which is to be found no-where in entire ISO :-( | ||
| + | - I was also working on adding more details to BKO homepage, Added following things. | ||
| + | - FAQ for BKO. | ||
| + | - Started to write HOWTO for making BKO bootable USB. | ||
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| + | ==== June - 19 ==== | ||
| + | - Heard about andytim's patch for httpdisk, I was thinking, how is it going to affect me and BKO development. | ||
| + | - Came across link for [[http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/http-fuse/index-en.html|HTTP-FUSE-LINUX]] which seems same as what I am doing. It seems that they have done little more than what we have planed. I am not sure how badly this is going to affect BKO. | ||
| + | - Problem in creation of initramfs [[InitramFSBKO]] | ||
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| + | ==== June - 20 ==== | ||
| + | - Finally got the Knoppix working on BKO. I have done some basic testing and it seems it is working fine. [[http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/pravin/BKO.git;a=commit;h=976e5350638ad848e45e549cefa9970eafeb7378|commit hash]] | ||
| + | - Fixed some small bugs in BKO. | ||
