[Vmdebootstrap-devel] Why is --no-extlinux no longer working?

[Neil Williams]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:17:47 +0100
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I discovered this when trying to use the git version of vmdebootstrap
> to create a FreedomBox image for Raspberry Pi.  The build fail like
> this:
> 
> Building raspberry FreedomBox for armel.
> starting vmdebootstrap
> Usage: vmdebootstrap [options]
> 
> vmdebootstrap: error: no such option: --no-extlinux

neil at sylvester:~$ /usr/sbin/vmdebootstrap --noext-linux
Usage: vmdebootstrap [options]

vmdebootstrap: error: no such option: --noext-linux
neil at sylvester:~$ /usr/sbin/vmdebootstrap --no-ext-linux
Usage: vmdebootstrap [options]

vmdebootstrap: error: no such option: --no-ext-linux

neil at sylvester:~$ /usr/sbin/vmdebootstrap --no-extlinux
ERROR: You must give disk image filename, or tarball filename

> This used to work, and just to make sure it wasn't our patches that
> broke it, I tried again without any patches:

It does work.

> % ./vmdebootstrap --no-extlinux
> Usage: vmdebootstrap [options]
> 
> vmdebootstrap: error: no such option: --no-extlinux
> %
> 
> Was this option removed?  It is the only way to get rid of the default
> boot loader setup to allow us to do our own, so we depend on it to
> work. :(

AFAICT it does. Compare ./vmdebootstrap with /usr/sbin/vmdebootstrap.

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Neil Williams
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