larch (SOLVED #1, SOLVED #2)

spookykid · 2010-06-21 22:32:42

Hi all, I've been messing around larch 7.1 and now I have a fully bootable ISO . I'm in the process of customizing it and one of the things I want is to set the Terminus font when booting my new system right from the start after Grub. So like a normal arch installation I've added 'consolefont' (without quotes) to mkinitcpio.conf in the HOOKS line under larch's GUI (Larchify tab).
Everything seems ok (mkinitrd -p kernel26 gives no errors), but when booting my system I still get the plain boring default font until it get's to rc.conf CONSOLEFONT.
Can anyone tell me if adding consolefont to HOOKS under larch works?

Last edited by spookykid (2010-06-23 12:08:30)

gradgrind · 2010-06-22 13:44:58

If you have a look at the consolefont install script (/lib/initcpio/install/consolefont), you will see that it gets its font by parsing /etc/rc.conf. This file is not used by larch, a new version is created in the overlay. The best way to handle this would probably be to write a new version of this hook, but I guess a quick fix for the moment would be to put your "CONSOLEFONT=" line (also) in the file that is parsed by mkinitcpio - /home/larchbuild/etc/rc.conf, if you are using the default installation path. You would need to do this before running the larchify stage.
Hope that helps.

spookykid · 2010-06-22 15:52:06

Hi gradgrind,
thanks for your reply, seems to work I'd like to thank you for your wondefull work with larch 7.X GUI. Thank you for that.

spookykid · 2010-06-22 19:45:03

Hi gradgrind,
I got other issue, when I login as root my .bashrc file isn't used (I've got it under overlay in /root/.bashrc) only if I log in with other user and then I su to root. In arch it works as expected, do you know if it's related to larch in any way?
Ohh and about gen-repo file? larch 7.1 doesn't have that script how can I make my own custom repo?
Thank you.

Last edited by spookykid (2010-06-23 01:57:46)

gradgrind · 2010-06-23 10:18:18

That issue with /root/.bashrc sounds very strange. Is .bash_profile ok (it normally does '. $HOME/.bashrc')? Maybe you could investigate a bit more, it is certainly not an intended breakage.

The gen_repo script is indeed there, look in the scripts directory. I think there were also other ideas floating around in the forum, for example http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/makerepo.

spookykid · 2010-06-23 12:07:55

Hi gradgrind,
yes that was the problem I haven't got a .bash_profile file .
Thanky you.

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#1 2010-06-21 22:32:42

larch (SOLVED #1, SOLVED #2)

#2 2010-06-22 13:44:58

Re: larch (SOLVED #1, SOLVED #2)

#3 2010-06-22 15:52:06

Re: larch (SOLVED #1, SOLVED #2)

#4 2010-06-22 19:45:03

Re: larch (SOLVED #1, SOLVED #2)

#5 2010-06-23 10:18:18

Re: larch (SOLVED #1, SOLVED #2)

#6 2010-06-23 12:07:55

Re: larch (SOLVED #1, SOLVED #2)

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