Re: MILO bugfix
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 08:27:46PM +0000, Nikita Schmidt wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 Jan, John Goerzen wrote:
> > Incidentally, while on the topic...
> >
> > After rebooting, it is possible to press a key to interrupt milo's boot.
> > However, this isn't possible when it is first called (from the ALphaBios on
> > my LX614). Is it possible to add in such a feature?
> >
>
> It is quite easy, the only problem being how to specify the timeout. It
> could be done through variables on platforms where NVRAM is available to
> MILO, but not all platforms are such.
On my LX164, I can specify a command line "boot sdb2:boot/vmlinuz...." that
is passed to MILO. Even just a default 5-second timeout would be fine, or
something that if I press escape while it's probing for devices (writing out
the dots to the screen), then it gives me a command prompt.
> Do you actually need to interrupt the boot at that particular moment?
Just as much as any other moment :-)
It's annoying that, if I have new kernels ready for testing, that I have to
boot into my default one first, and then reboot, to be able to get into
another. And a soft reboot does not always work with the 2.2.x kernels.
> You can boot via milo.conf(5) for flexibility...
>
> Nikita
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