boot parameters

[cast-fish]

Hello

Is it possible to tell Tcl to display the familiar "boot" prompt
where users can edit the computers boot parameters
(even when TCL boots from a frugal HDD install....)

iF it is possible then can you please tell me how?

V

[Juanito]

Do you want to display the boot options or enter boot options?

In either case it will depend on your boot loader (grub, syslinux, etc) and how it is set up.

[cast-fish]

Hello Juanot,


It's so that it's possible to enter boot options. I think the loader is syslinux

V

[Juanito]

Looking at:

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display boot.msg
default microcore
label microcore
kernel /boot/vmlinuz
initrd /boot/core.gz
append loglevel=3

label mc
kernel /boot/vmlinuz
append initrd=/boot/core.gz loglevel=3
implicit 0
prompt 1
timeout 300
F1 boot.msg
F2 f2
F3 f3
F4 f4
..I'd guess it's "prompt 1" that gives the prompt for additional boot codes?

[cast-fish]

RIght

So i will edit the bootloader "Syslinux" file and place

"prompt 1" in it.


Thanks

V

[cast-fish]

uh...yes that makes the computer display a boot prompt ...but won't accept any
boot parameters

For example

$boot  tc noswap   (Etc)

it says "error cannot find the Kernel called "tc"......"

should i be using  $boot core noswap    (etc........)

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this is my syslinux boot stanza

DEFAULT core
LABEL core
KERNEL /tce/boot/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/tce/boot/core.gz quiet vga=785 tce=/mnt/sda1 desktop=fluxbox waitusb=5:UUID="15fef4d5-cd2e-4181-9473-f78a7f32c33a" tce=UUID="15fef4d5-cd2e-4181-9473-f78a7f32c33a"
prompt 1   
timeout 20

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just added those 2 lines at the bottom


V

[Juanito]

you could try "core noswap" or just "noswap"

[cast-fish]

yeah ...tried just "noswap"  same error message "error can't find kernel noswap"

will try ........core noswap


after that i don't know

thx

V

[cast-fish]

Hi

the "core" flag worked....

so thanks a lot


V