ANNOUNCE: Wayland Live CD that starts directly to Wayland

[Rune Kjær Svendsen]

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Would it be possible to place that ISO image on a usb key and to boot from
> it?
>
If you're using GRUB2 you can do even better. Just place the script
attached to this mail in the file /etc/grub.d/60_isoboot

Then place your ISO in the directory /boot/images/

Now just run "update-grub" and the ISO will automatically be added to the
GRUB boot menu, and you can boot from it directly from the GRUB boot menu.

> Ilyes
> On May 24, 2013 11:01 PM, "nerdopolis" <bluescreen_avenger at verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>> New Wayland Live CD / First true Wayland Live CD.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi. Today I pushed out a new ISO of my Wayland Live CD project, which is
>> named for my favorite celebrity.
>>
>>
>>
>> For this new Wayland CD, I wrote a new login manager with Bash and Zenity
>> and Expect (and Script) that fully runs on a Wayland server (weston).
>>
>>
>>
>> Now X is no longer involved in the boot process, and X does not start,
>> (unless you use an X application with xwayland), because I replaced LightDM
>> with the new loginmanager
>>
>>
>>
>> ***As far as security goes, it does store the password in the
>> environment, but the users would have to be either root or daemon in order
>> to be able to read the /proc/<pid>/environ, depending on the process. It
>> also has a FIFO that has 777 access, but login info is never passed across
>> it, just commands that tell it to switch user ttys, show a login prompt,
>> show a shutdown menu, and tell the script who's weston owns a TTY. So if
>> you decide to install it, and depend on security, be warned.***
>>
>>
>>
>> And just a note for people that switch ttys. The script tries to find the
>> first available TTY automatically that isn't open, and it seems to favor
>> TTY8, and then start using the next ones for the session. (Unlike what we
>> are used to in X, where it defaults to TTY7)
>>
>>
>>
>> I got it to a point where it supports automatic login, picking a user
>> from a list to login, and switching user sessions.
>>
>> It also supports specifying the desktop environment you want to use,
>> similar to the X display managers, only for desktop environments that run
>> as plugins under Weston. Right now, all I have is Weston's
>> desktop-shell.so, but in the next ISO, I can add Weston's tablet-shell.so,
>> as well as Hawaii's Weston plugin.
>>
>>
>>
>> It even works in virtualbox if there is a framebuffer, as if there is no
>> kms, it falls back to using a framebuffer. (and if there is no framebuffer,
>> it falls back to a text dialog).
>>
>> Under virtualbox, you might have to select a different boot option to
>> force create a framebuffer.
>>
>>
>>
>> there's also a command line wizard
>>
>> rbos-add-framebuffer
>>
>> It's basically an easy to use frontline for adding vga= argument to
>> /etc/default/grub if you install the system. It does have ubiquity, it has
>> the shortcut in the Desktop folder. (or the command).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> You can download the new ISO here: (sorry, 32 bit only, as I need to work
>> my 32 bit dpkg to install a 64 bit kernel again)
>>
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/rebeccablackos/files/May%2024th%202013/RebeccaBlackLinux_i386.iso/download
>>
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#!/bin/sh
set -e

IMAGES=/boot/images
. /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib
find $IMAGES -name "*.iso" | sort |
while read image ; do
IMAGEPATH=$( make_system_path_relative_to_its_root "$image" )
echo "Found ISO image: $IMAGEPATH" >&2
#now we need to find out what the initrd file is called
INITRD="$(isoinfo -l -i "$IMAGEPATH" | egrep -o INITRD*.* | sed 's/;1 $//' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' )"

cat << EOF
menuentry "Bootable ISO: $(basename $IMAGEPATH | sed s/.iso//)" {
 loopback loop $image
 set gfxpayload=keep
 linux	(loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$image noeject noprompt --
 initrd	(loop)/casper/$INITRD
}
EOF
done