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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