Tiny Core Linux

Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: floppy on July 16, 2011, 09:56:16 AM

Title: Suggestion for "onboot list" as boot code: file end ".lst" should be optional
Post by: floppy on July 16, 2011, 09:56:16 AM

Hello,
in order to save 4 letters in the boot code line, I suggest to eliminate the requirement file extension ".lst"
kernel command line "... lst=mytceonbootlist.lst" should work with "lst=mytceonbootlist" 
The "lst=mytceonbootlist"  dont work (no TCE are loaded).
Reasons:
1. can save 4 letters ".lst" on the boot code (I come currently to the limit of 255 caracters)
2. mydata=mydata dont have the extension ".tgz", too (so, not homogenous)

Title: Re: Suggestion for "onboot list" as boot code: file end ".lst" should be optional
Post by: gerald_clark on July 16, 2011, 10:47:58 AM

I don't really see theneed to change.

The mydata file needs to be a .tgz file ( although technically the extension needn't be.tgz ).
The backup has an even different extension, so including the extension would complicate the code.

mytceonbootlist does not need to end in .lst.
If you want it to end in lst add .lst.
If you don't want it to end in .lst, don't.
You could save even more characters if you specified lst=l.