[ptxdist] Creating hardlinks withing ptxdist?

[ptxdist] Creating hardlinks withing ptxdist?

[Alexander Stein]

Hello,

is it possible to create hardlinks within ptxdist? Our current problem is that 
the kernel image is located in /boot/bzImage, as usually. But we need the also 
the file under /efi/boot/bootia32.efi to be bootable from EFI. A symlink 
doesn't work from EFI side and I don't want to maintain 2 binaries in 
parallel, despite the space wasting. So I got the idea of using a hardlink. 
Seems to work, manually created.

Best regards,
Alexander
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Re: [ptxdist] Creating hardlinks withing ptxdist?

[Michael Olbrich]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 02:08:10PM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote:
> is it possible to create hardlinks within ptxdist? Our current problem is that 
> the kernel image is located in /boot/bzImage, as usually. But we need the also 
> the file under /efi/boot/bootia32.efi to be bootable from EFI. A symlink 
> doesn't work from EFI side and I don't want to maintain 2 binaries in 
> parallel, despite the space wasting. So I got the idea of using a hardlink. 
> Seems to work, manually created.

You could try a postinst script. But I'm not sure if the tools that create
the images can handle hardlinks.
Or only install /efi/boot/bootia32.efi and not /boot/bzImage, or do you
need that as well?

Michael

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Re: [ptxdist] Creating hardlinks withing ptxdist?

[Alexander Stein]

Am Mittwoch, 18. April 2012, 16:44:06 schrieb Michael Olbrich:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 02:08:10PM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote:
> > is it possible to create hardlinks within ptxdist? Our current problem is
> > that the kernel image is located in /boot/bzImage, as usually. But we
> > need the also the file under /efi/boot/bootia32.efi to be bootable from
> > EFI. A symlink doesn't work from EFI side and I don't want to maintain 2
> > binaries in parallel, despite the space wasting. So I got the idea of
> > using a hardlink. Seems to work, manually created.
> 
> You could try a postinst script. But I'm not sure if the tools that create
> the images can handle hardlinks.
> Or only install /efi/boot/bootia32.efi and not /boot/bzImage, or do you
> need that as well?

Well, I don't need /boot/bzImage necessarily, I think. But the kernel image 
would be in the default place and so I could still boot from this image with a 
non-EFI bootloader.

Best regards
Alexander
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