Re: [Devil-linux-develop] enhancement to the linuxrc script

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Tim Tait wrote:
> 
> I made what I think is a few enhancements to the linuxrc script... now 
> this is my 1st attempt at any real script mods, so I may not have it all 
> correct.
> 
> First is simple, I have it check floppies for a config 1st, thus 
> allowing someone to temporarily test new configs by overiding one stored 
> on a HD. Probably be good to check other removeable media list USB 1st 
> too but thats trickier. I don't think this raises a security risk, cause 
> if someone can put floppies into your machine they can do a lot worse too.
> 
> 2nd, if you have multiple possible sources of  the configuration file, 
> if it's not on the first one, it halts the boot to prompt if you want to 
> write a default one to it. This is really bad, because it hangs the 
> system on an unattended reboot. So I tweaked the script to check all 
> media 1st, then if none was found do a 2nd pass to look for blank media. 
> Of course lastly it still checks the CDROM. Is it possible to pass the 
> config source from grub as option, like it works for  "root=/dev/hda1"?
> 
> I don't know if this is the correct way, but here is a CVS diff:

Do it again and add the parameters "-run".
For infos:
cvs diff --help

I'm going to add this stuff to the documentation....

Heiko