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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. ==== June - 15 ==== Today I worked on getting up my repositories. - 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]] - 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]] ==== June - 16 ==== - 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// - 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) ==== 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]] ==== 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. ==== 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.
