Re: [Devil-linux-develop] more boot features

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

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 00:29, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Roland Pabel wrote:
> > 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
>
> Good idea, but let's name the parameter DL_noscan, so we can avoid
> conflicts.
ok

> > - 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
>
> config=/dev/hda1:x.tar.bz2,/dev/hda2:x.tar.bz2
> is the better solution. But make the : part optional, if not present
> expect etc.tar.bz2
yes, exactly as it is now

> > - 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
>
> /config is on the CD and so read-only
> Throw it somewhere in /etc where only root has read/write access.
You're right, I thought "/shm" and wrote "/config". If it's placed in /etc/, 
it could be saved to the archive, but it's of no use.
How about placing it alongside /shm/DL_DEVICE ?

> > - 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?)
>
> No idea
>
> > Roland
> > PS: I think I heard feature freeze somewhere ;-)
>
> What do others think about including those features in 1.2 ?
> I think it would be a good addition.
the boot option stuff is local to linuxrc, shouldn't introduce any unforseen 
bugs anywhere else...
Roland
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