On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:28:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:12:19PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: <snip/> > > Anyway, partman is not used. Instead a list of partitions is shown from > > which the user has to select his root partition. Then a shell is started. > > Other partitions have to be mounted separately. > > This is a full list of partitions, we don't do probing of content and such ? "rescue mode" == "expect the worse and hope for the best" I myself consider searching for disk devices and reading partition tables allready 'tricky' for a programm. Further automatic probing is even more trickier ... anyway > > a list of partitions is shown from which the user has to select > > his root partition Could | Device to mount as root file system: | | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part1 | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part2 | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part3 | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part4 | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part5 | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part6 | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part7 into | Device to mount as root file system: | | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part1:32M,Linux | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part2:600M,Linux | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part3:30G,LVM | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part4:10G,extended | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part5:1G,LinuxSwap/Solaris | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part6:2G,Linux | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part7:4G,Linux | /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part8:3G,Linux So that more information from the partitiontable is shown, such as size and type Cheers Geert Stappers
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