From: ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
To: <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] init-live.sh: allow users to choose the boot action
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:48:20 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51DD1FD4.6090101@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51DD1C08.5020905@r-finger.com>
On 07/10/2013 04:32 PM, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/07/13 08:12, Qi.Chen@windriver.com wrote:
>> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
>>
>> Previously, the boot action for live images was totally determined
>> by the LABEL value in the boot parameters (/proc/cmdline).
>>
>> This behavior is not very convenient for users. The user may just want
>> to drop to a shell for troubleshooting the live image, or the user may
>> want to try to install the live image while the LABEL value is 'boot'.
>>
>> We should provide the users a chance to choose the boot action when
>> the live image starts up.
> I am not entirely clear on why this is needed, the LABEL kernel cmdline
> parameter is set up by syslinux, and its value can be specified by the
> user from the syslinux prompt. If what you want is a more user friendly
> menu, then I think the correct solution would be to tweak the syslinux
> config, rather than to create a duplicate boot menu in the init script.
>
> Tomas
>
>
I agree.
Thanks for providing this info.
//Chen Qi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-10 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-10 7:12 [PATCH 0/1] init-live.sh: allow user to choose the boot action Qi.Chen
2013-07-10 7:12 ` [PATCH 1/1] init-live.sh: allow users " Qi.Chen
2013-07-10 8:32 ` Tomas Frydrych
2013-07-10 8:48 ` ChenQi [this message]
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