iPXE allows individual raw files to be automatically wrapped with
suitable CPIO headers and injected into the magic initrd image as
exposed to a booted Linux kernel. This feature is currently limited
to placing files within directories that already exist in the initrd
filesystem.
Remove this limitation by adding the ability for iPXE to construct
CPIO headers for parent directories as needed, under control of the
"mkdir=<n>" command-line argument. For example:
initrd config.ign /usr/share/oem/config.ign mkdir=1
will create CPIO headers for the "/usr/share/oem" directory as well as
for the "/usr/share/oem/config.ign" file itself.
This simplifies the process of booting operating systems such as
Flatcar Linux, which otherwise require the single "config.ign" file to
be manually wrapped up as a CPIO archive solely in order to create the
relevant parent directory entries.
The value <n> may be used to control the number of parent directory
entries that are created. For example, "mkdir=2" would cause up to
two parent directories to be created (i.e. "/usr/share" and
"/usr/share/oem" in the above example). A negative value such as
"mkdir=-1" may be used to create all parent directories up to the root
of the tree.
Do not create any parent directory entries by default, since doing so
would potentially cause the modes and ownership information for
existing directories to be overwritten.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE will construct CPIO headers for images that have a non-empty
command line, thereby allowing raw images (without CPIO headers) to be
injected into a dynamically constructed initrd. This feature is
currently implemented within the BIOS-only bzImage format support.
Split out the CPIO header construction logic to allow for reuse in
other contexts such as in a UEFI build.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Access to the gpxe.org and etherboot.org domains and associated
resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain. Work
around this problem by renaming project from gPXE to iPXE, and
updating URLs to match.
Also update README, LOG and COPYRIGHTS to remove obsolete information.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown