Re: automatic booting with aboot


Subject: Re: automatic booting with aboot
From: David Huggins-Daines (dhd@linuxcare.com)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 09:24:04 PDT


Othmar Pasteka <op@atnet.at> writes:

> ok, i just grepped the SRM howto for auto_action adn boot_osflags
> but no match was found. i grepped the version which is accompined
> with aboot (well the hwoto accompined with aboot's source is more
> up2date then the one in doc-linux-text/html...)

Hm?

[dhd@curacao]:~/src/aboot/aboot-0.6b/doc$ grep -i auto_action SRM-HOWTO.txt
  booting Linux are BOOTDEF_DEV, BOOT_FILE, BOOT_FLAGS, and AUTO_ACTION,
  extra flags. AUTO_ACTION specifies the action which the console

Granted, it's not in big letters at the beginning of the document, but
it's in there for sure.

> anyway, i wouldn't have asked if had found the needed information in the
> howtos ... and i also wanted to search the ML archive at w.d.o

No problem, the documentation is still lacking, so that's what the
lists are for :-)

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