Re: [Devil-linux-develop] boot options

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

Roland Pabel wrote:
> On Saturday 31 January 2004 16:22, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 
>>Roland Pabel wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>I'm currently coding the option to preselect the boot options (I prefer
>>>1024x768, not text) and adding user-defined options to the boot loader.
>>>In the /build/scripts/build-iso script, there is this passage which
>>>writes the loader configs and the first two entries read (that's line
>>>250)
>>>
>>>prompt 1
>>>label 0
>>>kernel /boot/vmlinuz
>>>append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz  init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8096
>>>label 1
>>>kernel /boot/vmlinuz
>>>append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz  init=/linuxrc
>>>ramdisk_blocksize=4096 vga=769
>>>
>>>the other labels look like "label 1". Shouldn't this read all the same
>>>except for the vga option? Is ramdisk_blocksize an error (should be
>>>ramdisk)? And I guess 8096 should read 4096...
>>
>>You are absolutely correct, this was a bug. Update from CVS and you'll
>>get the fixed version.
>>
>>Hey I get an idea! Why don't you modify it so, that you can select the
>>default resolution via menuconfig ? And of course send us the patch
>>then.... ;-)
> 
> Well, that is actually what I'm doing...(I hope that was no sarcasm ;)

Cool. :-))

> The resolution selection part is already done, but I'm having some problems 
> with the "enter a text" part:
> I can't find a way to transparently write "text" as the first word into 
> .result with the current scripts. You solved this for lists by returning 
> "listsel x" for a selected item, but "lxdialog --inputbox" doesn't support 
> that (at least I think so, can't find much documentation about it)
> Roland


Why don't you just make it a listsel ?
0 text mode 80x25
1 640x480 VESA
2 800x600 VESA
and so on.

In the build-iso file, then just "cut" it.

This "should" work (of course no promise ;-) )

Heiko