Hi Bernard, thanks for the details. This sounds doable.
On Monday 11 June 2007 03:10, Bernard Li wrote: > > > any chance you can help adding support for kboot to systemconfigurator? We'd > > need a module similar to Grub.pm which builds the kboot config file. > > I suppose I could, when I have more time later. I guess the hard part > is figuring out that the client uses kboot as the boot loader -- how > would we determine that? The kboot configuration is typically stored > in /etc/kboot.conf, so would checking for the presence of this file be > a valid check -- how does SystemConfigurator usually check to see what > bootloader a client currently uses? Is there anything else than /etc/kboot.conf which could be used for recognising that we have kboot? Is there any tool to tell the kboot environment from which partition the kboot.conf should be read? Is /etc/kboot.conf really allways there? In systemconfigurator lib/Boot/*.pm there are two footprint routines, one detects the config file (footprint_config) and the other one is supposed to detect the loader (footprint_loader). Is there anything like a loader (like grub-install, lilo, etc.) in kboot? > On a related note, David Lombard has a patch for kboot which will > allow it to parse standard grub.conf and make kboot boot with that > configuration (instead of requiring kboot.conf). > > > I have no idea how kboot works and have no toy to try it with. Can you > > describe that? Is it a config file? Where located? How do you install it? > > How > > do you make kboot look at your config file? > > Kboot is a bootloader based on kexec. Basically kboot boots up a > Linux kernel with some additional user space tools (from busybox or > other sources) then it will read the kboot configuration and use kexec > to boot the kernel in your HD (or anywhere else). So where does the kboot.conf reside? On a special partition? How does kboot find it? Thanks, best regards, Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
