[Devil-linux-develop] more boot features

[Roland P. <pa...@ta...>]

I thought about the config features Tim needs and thought of this:

- a boot flag "config_no_scan" (or short "noscan") which would disable probing 
for disks and searching for archives
This is a one-liner, just skip the 'find' lines in linuxrc

- config parameter lists
something like 
config=/dev/hda1:backup.tar.bz2,/dev/floppy/0
This can become quite complex, unless we do not want to include stuff like
search two partitions for one file : config=(/dev/hda1,/dev/hda2):x.tar.bz2
that should be entered like this:
config=/dev/hda1:x.tar.bz2,/dev/hda2:x.tar.bz2
This should be easy to implement, split the line at the comma's and handle 
each block

- save device and filename
The used device and filename is handed over to /sbin/pre_init from linuxrc, 
but pre_init discards it. We could save them easily to files in /config , 
i.e. /config/DL_device_name and /config/DL_archive_name
and save-config could ask to save it there as a first option

- The boot image
I wanted to add the version number to the boot image, so you'd see what you're 
about to boot. pbmtext/pbmtextps doesn't work for me (error's I could resolve 
yet), and pbmlabel looks bad (the lines are just 1 point thick, much too 
thin). Writing the text twice just one point displaced to the right makes it 
look better, but not perfect... does anybody else know of a standard tool for 
this stuff? (or could someone else try with pbmtext?)

Roland
PS: I think I heard feature freeze somewhere ;-)
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