I know that this doesn't help in packaging some newer version,
but I'd like to add that with the current 2:3.63+dfsg-2ubuntu3 version my
clients fail to pxe boot, while they successfully boot with the 2:3.83+dfsg-1
version currently in Debian sid.
I know that things are pressed now with Karmic,
About the crash when no label is specified: it seems actually that
gfxboot core never runs menuconfig.init (the menu parsing function).
Running under Bochs, it appears that gfxboot core does its initialization
(gfx_init_51 is run since the hello msg is displayed) and the VGA
initialization too (
Please attach your gfxboot-theme-ubuntu patches so far so that I can
review them?
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Patching gfxboot-theme-ubuntu to make it parse labels that are not in
isolinux.cfg was indeed easy.
The tough part is to fix the bug that makes gfxboot crash if no label is
specified in isolinux.cfg (my patch still requires a dummy foo label).
Couldn't find the problem. I may need some help on tha
Tested with Karmic Alpha 2 ISO (still downloading Alpha 3) and a nightly
Karmic chroot as build environment.
Testing Done: updated isolinux.bin and vesamenu.c32 with the ones built in my
PPA. Added gfxboot.com.
Built with: sudo mkisofs -r -V 'Ubuntu 9.10 i386' -o
karmic-alternate-i386-hacked.iso
