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#1 2011-05-07 11:33:07
- Draygera
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AIF and BURG
Does anyone happen to know if the Arch Installation Framework supports the Burg bootloader, and if so, could you possibly direct me to some more information about it?
By the way, I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this or not, so if not, could an Admin bump me to the right one please? I'm helping a fellow Linux enthusiast build a Linux derivative and he's thinking of changing over to Burg instead of Grub and he's tasked me with finding out the information.
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#2 2011-05-07 12:50:09
- jeslinmx
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Re: AIF and BURG
In the official sense, AIF doesn't support burg. Unless the devs decided it would be a good prank and coded it in 3 minutes for 1st April.
Seriously though, burg has no AIF support because it relies on grub2, which Arch has not considered as the de facto bootloader yet and thus has no AIF support for either. However, it is supported outside of it; there is an article for it on the wiki. Good luck!
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#3 2011-05-07 17:38:02
- Draygera
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Re: AIF and BURG
When building an Arch distro, does AIF have to be used then? Or is there any way to make a wrapper script that would emulate Grub so AIF would think that Burg was the same thing?
Thanks for the reply and I have already checked out the Wiki page on it and it didn't say much of anything useful other than its main setup.
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#4 2011-05-07 19:42:54
- Dieter@be
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Re: AIF and BURG
When building an Arch distro, does AIF have to be used then? Or is there any way to make a wrapper script that would emulate Grub so AIF would think that Burg was the same thing?
that sounds ugly and naughty.
the better way would be to add support burg support to aif and supply a patch. if you're good at bash/shellscripting this is easy, as it already supports grub and recently some patches were added for syslinux support, so that gives you an idea of the work involved.
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#5 2011-05-08 13:03:01
- jeslinmx
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Re: AIF and BURG
Sorry if I am not fully understanding the situation, but can't you just install it normally and then install burg from a fully working system?
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#6 2011-05-08 14:35:48
- ANOKNUSA
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Re: AIF and BURG
Sorry if I am not fully understanding the situation, but can't you just install it normally and then install burg from a fully working system?
Agreed. The OP probably ought to head back to the wiki and read up on "The Arch Way," "The Arch Build System," etc. You're making this matter overly complicated. I have BURG installed right now, and it didn't hurt me one iota to spend the two minutes necessary to install it after installing my system--just as one would on any and every other Linux distro available.
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