a little while ago i was doing something similar with booting (but not media boxes, and not using runlevels). you can select runlevels from boot time if u want, but you can also pass on custom variables.
eg:
something in your lilo.conf like this:
image=/boot/fw1-C-2.4.18-1
label=FW-C-3-PSF-1
append="PSFIRST=1"
read-only
root=/dev/hdb3
VGA=1
image=/boot/fw1-C-2.4.18-1
label=FW-C-3-PSF-0
append="PSFIRST=0"
read-only
root=/dev/hdb3
VGA=1note the append="", if i remember correctly you can use any variable name that isnt already used by the kernel/modules, PSFIRST worked for me back then fine.
and something like this within ur boot init scripts (i used this within the rc.sysinit script on a red-hat type system (based on the 'Core' distro)):
echo -n $"(debug): PSFIRST= ($PSFIRST) "
if [ "$PSFIRST" = "0" ]; then
echo $"NO"
elif [ "$PSFIRST" = "1" ]; then
echo $"YES!"
else
echo $"ERROR! - unknown value!"
fiadd whatever u want instead of the "echo"s.
hope it comes in handy,
rohbags.
To answer some of your questions.
Yes you can choose the runlevel at boottime in linux. In grub you can add
the parameter init=4 (or other level of course) to boot your own custom boot
level.
Bart
--------- Original Message -------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Freevo-users] Dual Booting Conundrum Date: 18/08/03 11:25
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> Hi guys, (sorry for the long winded
> message... hope you dont truncate!)
>
> Im soon going to go all out and make the Mini-ITX
> motherboard etc I have run linux and Freevo (I'm thinking Freepia for
> ease?)
>
> Anyway, the problem is, I also like to use a
> REGULAR install of linux and windoze on my system, but dual booting a
media box
> isnt the best solution
>
> What I was therefore thinking is
> this...
> 1) Buy a compact flash > ide
> adapter
> 2) Put it on the secondary IDE, set it to
> slave
> 3) Set the bios to boot in this
> order -Sec
> Slave -Pri
> Master
> 4) Install a bootloader on the Compact flash
> media
> 5) Have freevo/linux as the main OS that
> boots by default, and then have windoze and a normal linux install under
different partitions... which could be booted from the CF Media.
>
> Therefore, when I put the CF card in, I could
> chose which OS to load, but without, the normal OS and freevo would
load....
> correct?
>
> Just wondering has anyone else tried
> this?
>
> Also, as another question, I know that with all
> media boxes, space (hard drive) is an issue, so, i was thinking...
> is it possible to have ONE SINGLE Linux OS on the
> system, and then allow TWO SEPERATE run levels, one to be executed as
standard
> (5 i assume) ---> which would move directly into Freevo, and the other
which
> would be executed by the bootloader on the compact flash??
>
> Is it possible to pass parameters to the kernel
> such as run level, FROM a bootloader? This would be much
easier (I
> assume) and save on space... then I could mess about with Freevo
from
> within the same system.
>
> Thanks in advance for any
> ideas/advice.
> Graham Balharrie
>
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