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Re: Testing the installer


From: Bengt Richter
Subject: Re: Testing the installer
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:07:46 -0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

Hello Gábor,

On +2020-01-23 12:21:27 +0100, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
[...]

> This is a bit off topic, but I am about to create an automatic
> installer, that is
> a candidate for a new backend. It currently works by providing a configuration
> record, and then executes a few things from the installer.
> 
> (It does a lookup for a candidate installation target disk, autopartitions it,
> then injects the bootloader and file-system fields into an operating-system
> template, and finally does a system installation.)
>

Will your installer be able to create /boot and / images that will
work with Coreboot/SeaBios/grub legacy-only (not UEFI) bootable systems 
(like PureOS)?

IOW, what kind of BIOS systems is it dependent on?

> I will have a look at the new protocol soon, to see if this project
> can benefit from that.
[...]

> 
> Best regards,
> g_bor
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-- 
Regards,
Bengt Richter



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