On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:49:21AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: > What about installboot to have an option telling it to switch to serial > by default (still keeping possibility to override funcionality with > /etc/boot.conf)? This would save us from kung-fu with tiny 'a' partition > holding /etc/boot.conf...
installboot(8) was the first place I looked when trying to do my homework as I thought it the most logic place and halfway expected some existing functionality to be there already. Hopefully modifying boot(8) will turn out to be easy. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:43:41AM -0400, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > You can Kung Fu it now or Kung Fu it later. More flags always makes > developers cringe. Fiddling with partitions seems way easier. :-) Understandable and I'm grateful for the workaround. But hopefully some developer will feel the urge to one way or the other add functionality for this in the future. In the meanwhile I hope Joel's suggestion to modify boot(8) turn out to be easy. In that case perhaps it could go into the FAQ or in an article at Undeadly. While this "partitional art" solution works, it is not very elegant. I think headless FDE will become increasingly popular. However, transferring terabytes of existing data onto them can take quite a while and it is frustrating to find out that one had to/forgot to add a tiny "a" partition and will have to re-label the whole partition, reinstall the OS and transfer all the data again. Cheers, Erling
