Re: [Devil-linux-develop] [PATCH] boot

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

Roland Pabel wrote:
> On Thursday 04 March 2004 22:32, Roland Pabel wrote:
> 
>>On Thursday 04 March 2004 22:12, hzu...@ra... wrote:
>>
>>>On 03/04/2004 03:49:05 PM Roland Pabel wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thursday 04 March 2004 20:09, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>Do you want to duplicate all entries in isolinux.cfg to pass the runlevel
>>to the kernel cmdline? I know that works with lilo, but the really handy
>>part is that you can specify any parameters freely...is that possible with
>>isolinux on CD?
> 
> It just came to me that Knoppix uses this feature heavily and even with Suse 
> you can use the F-Keys at boot to switch resolution and stuff. I'll look into 
> that tomorrow, now I really want to know how that works...

Yes it should be possible. But be carefull with Suse, they use a heavily 
patched boot loader....

You could to it the following way:
Add 2 more entries to the boot menu:
1) standard text mode (80x25) which goes only to runlevel 1
    this one should be good for most cases where you have to fix something
2) one modular one where you can change the command line

I don't know if that all is really possible, but I'm sure you'll figure 
it out. ;-)

Heiko