Hello, On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:42:17 +0100 Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Sokolovsky schreef: > > | 4. Otherwise (no root= or cmdline from bad 1st stage bootloader), it > | shows interactive menu listing of all available block devices with > | supported file systems. These include: ext2, jffs2, and for vfat - > | loopback images in the root directory. Also, NFS option is given. > | > | 5. Once user selects location, it checks if /boot/zImage (sic) > exists, | and if so, kexecs to it with appropriately constructed > root=. If | no /boot/zImage exists, it just uses that rootfs directly > | (switch_root's to it). > > It would be really sweet if those scripts parsed /proc/config.gz to > control which options are presented to the user. No use in showing CF > boot or trying to load pcmcia modules if the defconfig has those > disabled. For the bitcounters among us: disabling OABI compat on ARM > will gives us back the bits 'wasted' by CONFIG_IKCONFIG. All non-arm > systems I know off have enough space for the kernel to stop us > worrying. /proc/config.gz is important lifecycle maintenance feature, it is of course enabled in linux-hh. But why parse it? Again, initramfs-bootmenu uses actual partitions available (per /proc/partitions) as the source of user choices. As for loading modules, that's done with "modprobe -q foo 2>/dev/null", so no smoke if they're not there ;-). > > regards, > > Koen > [] -- Best regards, Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-devel mailing list Angstrom-distro-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-devel
