BE Loader Menu (was Re: rcs)
Teske, Devin
Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com
Fri Oct 18 19:39:32 UTC 2013
On Oct 10, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On 10/11/13 12:39 AM, Teske, Devin wrote:
>> On Oct 10, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/10/13 1:05 AM, Teske, Devin wrote:
>>>> I'm late to the party again ;D (didn't realize the rcs thread had turned BE)
>>>>
>>>> Both problems can be solved.
>>>> The loading of the kernel *after* choosing your boot device is trivial.
>>>> We've been doing it at $work for *years* (almost a decade?)
>>>>
>>>> I can put that in, whenever. Probably at the same time as implementing
>>>> the live/dynamic BE menus for selecting the root device.
>>> yeah it always pisses me of when the menu comes up after the kernel is loaded because 99% of the time, I'm in the menu because I want to boot a DIFFERENT kernel..
>>>
>> Same thought I had about 7 years ago. After hearing that others
>> (especially you, Julian) think the same thoughts...
>>
>> I'm happily ready to merge a patch from VICOR to achieve this.
> PLEASE!.. put it up for review somewhere...
>
Done...
http://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/druidbsd/forth_zfs/
All new code. Had to make it programmable:
http://twitpic.com/dhv2b6
See that the patch adds documentation for loader.conf(5).
It also clarifies a horrible description of "start" versus "initialize" in loader.4th(8).
> I wonder if we can we get a reviewboard instance for the project some time?
>
Do let me know what you think. I went all-out on this one.
--
Devin
P.S. I probably hadn't have put so much thought into this one if it hadn't been
specifically you asking ;D but I think you know that.
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