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

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

Roland Pabel wrote:
> 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

It would probably be a good idea to also rename this parameter to 
DL_config .
All lowercase would probably be better too....

>>>- 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 ?

Good idea.

>>>- 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...

OK let's say this is the last change.
After this patch we release Beta 1 and from there only bugfixes.

Heiko