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Re: Need Advice from avanti useres



Nikita Schmidt writes:
 > On Tuesday,  9 Mar, Martin Lucina wrote:
 > > 
 > > I have an idea, why not supply an init command for MILO (and aboot if it can
 > > be done) so that people have one less thing to type? You could also embed the
 > > kernel into MILO and use boot "embedded:" if you wanted to but you would have
 > > to compile MILO.
 > > 
 > 
 > Thanks for reminding, I just completely forgot about that.  Of course,
 > it would definitely make sense to set up the "init command" on the boot
 > disks...  It can even be done straight on the images, without replacing MILO.
 > Sorry, Loic, for not mentioning it earlier...

That is a very powerful functionality, and I actually use it on my machine for
some time now.

This is probably something to do for the next version, but that did not make 
it this time, because I would like to do it right,  taking into account
most possibilities (CDROM, floopy1, hardisk, other...) rather than
just assuming the user is alway booting from floppy 0.

Loic


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