| Commit message (Expand) | Author | Age | Files | Lines |
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| * | liveinit: put the 'rescue shell' commands into a function call. |   Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-11 | 1 | -12/+21 |
| * | Increase the maximum number of loop devices the Live OS will use to 96....If you have a large number of addon modules, 96 may still be too low.
This value can be changed on boot-time by the 'maxloops=' boot parameter.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-10 | 1 | -1/+9 |
| * | Add preliminary support for booting a Live ISO image in your filesystem....Boot parameter "livemedia=" has been expanded;
Generic syntax for explicitly defining your live media:
livemedia=/dev/sdX
The syntax for pointing the initrd to an ISO image of Slackware Live Edition
instead of a partition or DVD media expands on the above:
livemedia=/dev/sdX:/path/to/slackwarelive.iso
Note: this functionality is yet untested ;-)
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-09 | 1 | -8/+28 |
| * | Fix the 'localhd' boot parameter. | Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-09 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Add the missing part of the "disable glamor 2d acceleration" patch....New boot option 'nga' (which stands for 'no glamor acceleration')
adds a configuration file to X.Org. This disables the (now default) glamor
acceleration which causes a X startup failure with the error:
"EGL_MESA_drm_image required; (EE) modeset(0): glamor initialization failed".
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-09 | 1 | -2/+6 |
| * | liveinit: add 'nga' boot parameter to disable glamor 2D acceleration....X.Org in a QEMU VM will refuse to start if glamor is used for 2D acceleration.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-03-03 | 1 | -0/+15 |
| * | Remove duplicate line....Was there from the beginning... glad someone noticed it, thanks SangDae.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-27 | 1 | -1/+0 |
| * | New boot parameter "localhd" to initialize RAID/LVM on local harddisks. | Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-17 | 1 | -15/+31 |
| * | liveinit: do not give the OS access to the Live media if "toram" was specified....If we mounted the media partition in the Live OS, an I/O error will
be the result when the user removes the boot media from the computer.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-14 | 1 | -4/+18 |
| * | liveinit: fix the mount command by removing a superfluous '%'. | Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-13 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | liveinit: if "toram" was specified, increase the size of the RAM filesystem....Also, make sure that we do not try and make any persistent writes when 'toram'
was specified as a boot parameter, since 'toram' means that the user intends
to remove the boot media afterwards.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-09 | 1 | -1/+9 |
| * | Make X Keyboard configuration work properly....- fix detection of german (de) keyboard layout to configure Compose Key,
- actually use field #6 of the languages file (X Keyboard layout & variant)
when generating the grub and syslinux boot configuration files.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-09 | 1 | -6/+6 |
| * | Boot parameter "livemedia=": also support UUID and LABEL....Examples:
+ livemedia=08d500da-9538-435c-94fc-c97b1c96d1b1
+ livemedia=LIVESLAK
+ livemedia=/dev/sde1
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-06 | 1 | -2/+12 |
| * | liveinit: better support for german localizations....Based on feedback, use Scroll Lock instead of AltGr as the Compose Key.
Also, use 'de-latin1-nodeadkeys' instead of 'de-latin1' for console keyboard
layout, 'de_DE@euro' instead of 'de_DE.utf8' as language definition and
'nodeadkeys' as the X keyboard variant.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-06 | 1 | -1/+6 |
| * | liveinit: use MARKER instead of INITRD as prefix for message display at boot. | Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-06 | 1 | -31/+35 |
| * | Live init: add 'blacklist' bootparam to prevent loading of kernel driver(s)....Any kernel modules mentioned here will be added to the modprobe blacklist.
This will help out people who need to blacklist the nouveau driver,
for instance if they have a too-new computer.
Syntax:
blacklist=mod1[,mod2[,...]]
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-02 | 1 | -0/+15 |
| * | Live init: eject the Live CDROM/DVD medium after loading modules into RAM....Only relevant if the user added the 'toram' boot option.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-02 | 1 | -0/+3 |
| * | Live init: move the module loading code into a single function call....This gets rid of quite some code duplication.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-02 | 1 | -33/+33 |
| * | Live init: add 'toram' boot parameter....This allows the user to remove the bootable Live media afterwards, because
the complete OS will been copied to RAM and run from there when adding
the boot commandline parameter 'toram'.
This feature works nicely for the XFCE ISO since that one is fairly small.
Untested for the bigger ISOs; you need more patience while the squashfs
modules are being copied to RAM, and available RAM decreases a lot.
Realistically speaking, your computer would need 1 or 2 GB of RAM for
the XFCE variant, 2 or 4 GB RAM for the Mate variant, and 4 to 8 GB RAM
for the KDE4 and Plasma5 variants.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-02 | 1 | -6/+39 |
| * | liveinit: fix a spelling error in a comment (nitpicking I know). | Eric Hameleers | 2016-02-01 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Add support for persistence using a loop-mounted container file....This adds an option to store persistent data in a container file instead of
a directory in the USB stick's Linux filesystem.
Theoretically, this would allow the Slackware Live files to be copied to
a VFAT partition on a stick without erasing it, as long as the stick is
made bootable and the Live kernel & initrd are added to the boot menu.
To create a USB stick from the Live ISO which uses a persistence file instead
of a persistence directory, run the 'iso2usb.sh' script with a new parameter:
-P|--persistfile Use a 'persistence' container file instead of
a directory (for use on FAT filesystem).
The following example creates a 750 MB LUKS-encrypted container file
'slhome.img' which will contain /home ; as well as a file '/persistence.img'
in the root of the USB's Linux partition which will be used to store the
Live OS' persistent data:
./iso2usb.sh -i slackware64-live-current.iso -o /dev/sdX -c 750M -P
NOTE:
The persistence container file will be created as a 'sparse' file which
starts as an empty file not using up any disk space, but is allowed to
grow dynamically to consume a maximum value of 90% of the free disk space
on the Linux partition of the USB stick.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-29 | 1 | -32/+71 |
| * | Fix a flow in the logic when using a LUKS /home and no persistence....The /home would end up read-only if the "nop" parameter was passed
on the boot commandline in order to disable persistence for the session.
So, remount the media as writable earlier during init.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-29 | 1 | -2/+4 |
| * | Add support for a LUKS-encrypted /home in the USB Live version....Using iso2usb.sh script's new '-c' parameter, you can define the size for
a container file in the root of the USB stick's Linux partition.
- The container file will be loop-mounted and LUKS-encrypted and the
Live OS will mount the filesystem inside the container on /home/.
- The LUKS passphrase will be defined when executing the 'iso2usb.sh' script.
- The original /home content of the ISO will be copied into the
LUKS-encrypted container during execution of the 'iso2usb.sh' script.
- If for whatever reason you do not want to unlock & mount the LUKS container
during boot, you must add the boot parameter " luksvol= " to the syslinux
or grub commandline.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-22 | 1 | -0/+56 |
| * | Add 2016 in the copyright line. | Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-15 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Fix X keyboard configuration if no custom layout was chosen at boot. | Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-10 | 1 | -10/+12 |
| * | Added support for separate configuration of X keyboard layout/variant....New parameter for the boot commandline:
xkb=[language],variant
Examples:
# Only specify a Xkbvariant, and inherit the console keyboard layout in X:
kbd=nl xkb=,sundeadkeys
# Define a 'french swiss' layout in X, independent of the console:
xkb=ch,fr
Two new keyboard/language choices have been added which use this functionality:
- german swiss
- french swiss
(requested by Niki Kovacs).
New: if a non-US keyboard layout is selected, the US layout will be added
as a secondary layout. Toggling between the two layouts is possible using
the Shift-LeftAlt key combo.
Also new: the RightAlt key is now defined as the Compose Key in X. Meaning,
the combo <RightAlt><"><e> will generate a 'ë character'.
| Eric Hameleers | 2016-01-05 | 1 | -3/+30 |
| * | Make the init more robust....The computer may have other partitions which contain a Live image,
we need to choose one.
Alternatively, use "livemedia=/dev/sdX" to point init to the Live device
we want to boot.
| Eric Hameleers | 2015-12-24 | 1 | -10/+38 |
| * | Delete ALSA state file, the Live OS may be booted on different computers. | Eric Hameleers | 2015-12-24 | 1 | -0/+3 |
| * | liveinit: add debug code for development (disabled by default). | Eric Hameleers | 2015-12-16 | 1 | -0/+21 |
| * | Add support for alternative directorynames of 'persistence' and 'liveslak'....The persistence directory on USB is called 'persistence' by default but can
now be re-defined when running 'make_slackware_live.sh' to create the ISO.
Additionally it can be changed dynamically on boot of the Live OS by adding
a 'persistence=<dirname>' parameter to the boot.
The Live OS main directory is called 'liveslak' by default but can
now be re-defined when running 'make_slackware_live.sh' to create the ISO.
Additionally it can be changed dynamically on boot of the Live OS by adding
a 'livemain=<dirname>' parameter to the boot.
| Eric Hameleers | 2015-12-02 | 1 | -9/+16 |
| * | Make the 'livemain' directory name configurable in make_slackware_live.sh...This allows customizations for derivative Live OSes.
Patch submitted by Manfred Mueller.
| Eric Hameleers | 2015-11-29 | 1 | -7/+8 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: initial commit....This is Beta 2.
Read http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-live-edition-beta-2
for all the details.
Beta2 | Eric Hameleers | 2015-11-28 | 1 | -0/+442 |
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