giving the user a boot option

Adam Sulmicki adam at cfar.umd.edu
Fri Jan 31 11:12:00 CET 2003


> Does anyone think it is possible the offer the user a choice of
> commandline parameters.  I would like to use the serial console, or
> something else convienient, to allow the user to choose commandline1 or
> commandline2.  One of them mounts root over nfs, the other from the hard
> drive.  I guess this would be a simplified boot loader such as lilo or
> grub.  Unfortunately this 'boot loader'  must reside in the flash chip,
> since my hard drive will initially be completely blank.

Well, u could put grub or lilo on flash, either of them works with
linuxbios. The space may be big tight though.

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Adam Sulmicki
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