EasyOS Dunfell-series version 4.2.2 released

[BarryK]

Thank You Barry!!!

My drive is one partition only with ext2,
one boot folder with Limine bootloader,
and one folder for each EasyOS with
vmlinuz, initrd, and easy.sfs respectively:

boot
E345 (EasyOS-3.5.6)
E4 (EasyOS-4.0)
E422 (EasyOS-4.2.2)

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So how about introducing one more line
in the limine.cfg file:

KERNEL_PATH=boot:///E422/vmlinuz
MODULE_PATH=boot:///E422/initrd
BASESFS_PATH=boot:///E422/easy.sfs
KERNEL_CMDLINE=initrd=initrd rw wkg_dev=zram0 wkg_dir=easyos/

from Limine:

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This way init script needs just one more variable "BASESFS_PATH"
or something similar.

I like the experimental side of EasyOS, and I try to do
my part in it too. I understand that if there are no more
BOOT_* variables in initrd's init script, then my easy.sfs
can not be found.

You have these lines in the new easy-update script:

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The confusion comes perhaps from the fact that
I'm not copying the img file to the drive, but manually
each component to respective folders.

And as I mentioned in the previous post, if I use an init script
from an older EasyOS wich still has a BOOT_SPECS file, with the
new parametres of course, than it boots perfectly.

Thank You again,
Tom.

I could probably introduce a new kernel commandline parameter to do what "EASYOSZRAM" did before.
Will put that onto the to-do list. You might have to remind me later, as the to-do list has grown rather large, and some things might get forgotten.

[BarryK]

After various tries with settings during installation process i finally got version 4.2.2 running.

Nevertheless I'm curious how to install missing firmware rtw_8821ce ???

There is firmware at /lib/firmware/rtw88

If the firmware you need isn't there, you will have to search online to find it.

Does dmesg tell you what firmware is missing?

# dmesg | grep -i firmware

[kinoe]

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# dmesg | grep -i firmware
[    0.209438] ACPI: [Firmware Bug]: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[   27.809964] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for rtl_bt/rtl8821c_fw.bin failed with error -2
[   27.809971] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: firmware file rtl_bt/rtl8821c_fw.bin not found
[   27.810214] rtw_8821ce 0000:02:00.0: Firmware version 24.8.0, H2C version 12
[   28.113497] [drm] Found VCN firmware Version ENC: 1.13 DEC: 2 VEP: 0 Revision: 2
[   28.113540] amdgpu 0000:04:00.0: amdgpu: Will use PSP to load VCN firmware
[   30.811383] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for rtl_bt/rtl8821c_fw.bin failed with error -2
[   30.811387] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: firmware file rtl_bt/rtl8821c_fw.bin not found
[   42.760909] rtw_8821ce 0000:02:00.0: failed to get tx report from firmware
[   43.907068] rtw_8821ce 0000:02:00.0: failed to get tx report from firmware
[   78.840350] rtw_8821ce 0000:02:00.0: failed to get tx report from firmware
[   82.680923] rtw_8821ce 0000:02:00.0: failed to get tx report from firmware

[williwaw]

I could probably introduce a new kernel commandline parameter to do what "EASYOSZRAM" did before.
Will put that onto the to-do list. You might have to remind me later, as the to-do list has grown rather large, and some things might get forgotten.

Barry,
with all the changes recently, and the rewrites of documentation underway at the blog....
would you consider consolidating to a single page, the various kernel command line parameters that are supported?
tx

[BarryK]

Thanks Barry for the wonderful work!

Menu->Utility->MoManager create non-English Easy OS
Does not open when clicked on.

Similarlys post - https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 161#p22161

@DenVit
Fixed:

https://bkhome.org/news/202207/fix-for- ... y-422.html

[Tenoch]

My setup is an old Dell laptop with an external monitor connected via an HDMI cable.
Dunfell does not remember my zarfy configuration which is to use external monitor only, I do save the session. Also, since the laptop boots using both, the laptop small monitor and the external monitor, when selecting to use only the external monitor, drive icons, jwm tray and wallpaper don't update to the bigger monitor sizes, I mention these aspects because fossa64 does all these things.

[BarryK]

Pup-Advert-Blocker fixed:

https://bkhome.org/news/202207/pup-adve ... on-06.html

[kinoe]

Update to 4.2.3 went smoothly! Thank you Barry!
Themes in firefox & firefox in container don't persist after a reboot, whereas addons and boookmarks do.
Those installed and activated themes don't even seem to be downloaded after a reboot!?

[BarryK]

Update to 4.2.3 went smoothly! Thank you Barry!
Themes in firefox & firefox in container don't persist after a reboot, whereas addons and boookmarks do.
Those installed and activated themes don't even seem to be downloaded after a reboot!?

When you install a package via the package manager, you would have to save the session at shutdown, otherwise it will be gone.

Everything happens in RAM only, including installation of packages.

[kinoe]

When you install a package via the package manager, you would have to save the session at shutdown, otherwise it will be gone.
Everything happens in RAM only, including installation of packages.

Sure, but without manually saving the session all installed/activated themes in firefox disappeared, so far so good. But why installed addons and even bookmarks and history did persist without saving the session as they did here several times?