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Request: ability to specify absolute path for iso
The reason I do relative paths is because it makes things easier to deal with when passing the information to GRUB. I have been looking into this, but I'm looking into the most user-friendly way. Perhaps others can chime in with suggestions?
On Feb 28, 2015, at 7:24 AM, steve6375 [email protected] wrote:
e.g. isoroot
entry Ubuntu-14.10 family Ubuntu iso ubu/ubu.iso isoroot /
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So at the moment iso can only reside in /efi/boot folder? And not in
(usb root)/isos/distribution/somedistro.iso
as ../../ is simply not processed correctly
sc
@scerazy That it correct, that is why the OP requested the feature to add absolute paths, which would allow what you are suggesting.
ISOs can be placed in the /efi/boot directory though, or (I believe) in a sub-folder. To be honest this is one of the weaker elements of Enterprise at the moment; I expect to overhaul this soon with newer features.
On Feb 28, 2015, at 1:38 PM, scerazy [email protected] wrote:
So at the moment iso can only reside in /efi/boot folder? And not in
(usb root)/isos/distribution/somedistro.iso
sc
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To me absolute would be:
(root)/folder1/file1
Relative would be (to where we start reading the config file from):
././folder1/file1
So if we have: (root)/EFI/boot/.MLUL-Live-USB and (root)/isos/ubuntu/ubu.iso
then it would mean (to me) iso ././isos/ubuntu/ubu.iso
Which is not the case, so if you could change the code it would be brilliant
sc
yes, isos in subfolders do work, e.g. \EFI\boot\ubu\ubu.iso
entry Ubuntu-14.10 family Ubuntu iso ubu/ubu.iso
@steve6375 @scerazy Okay, thank you. I will take these suggestions into consideration.
I struggled a long time getting access to ISOs not in the efi/boot folder. As the documentation said "relative", I thought a path like "../../_ISO/LINUX/ubuntu.iso" would do fine. It did not.
However, I do believe that "../ubuntu.iso" worked (and putting the file in /efi), but I've lost track with my testing attempts so I'm not sure.
I'm trying to build a multi-platform bootable USB stick using Easy2Boot for PC booting, which requires ISOs to be placed in a certain structure, e.g. /_ISO/LINUX. Since the ISOs themselves can be booted on Mac as well, it feels just plain stupid to have to duplicate them for Enterprise. :-(
I see that this issue is filed as an enhancement, but to me it's a bug that you cannot use relative paths properly.
