On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 02:44:12AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060512 02:16]: > > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:13:20AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > > > > Does it work with the etherboot filo btw? > > > > > > > > Yes; that's what I've been using. But it _only_ works if I guarantee at > > > > least > > > > 3 to 4 seconds of bootup delay; that's why I have the AUTOBOOT_DELAY > > > > set to > > > > 5. But that doesn't work for Filo 0.5 - maybe it tries to find the disks > > > > before doing the AUTOBOOT_DELAY? > > > > > > Yes, it immediately tries to load the menu.lst file. If you dont want a > > > grub style menu you can disable USE_GRUB to get the old behavior > > > > Actually, I was looking forward to having a GRUB style bootloader - for a > > production machine in a datacenter that's a nice thing to have. > > can you add a delay(5); or delay(10); before grub_main(); in main/filo.c > and see if that helps?
Yes, delay(5) does the trick. Maybe this could be made into a configurable parameter? Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
