Re: More questions about debian on Zaurus

[Klaus Weidner <kw@w-m-p.com>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:05:14PM +0100, Simon Pickering wrote:
> > > # /usr/local/bin/zvncserver: line 24: cannot redirect 
> > standard input 
> > > from /dev/null: Permission denied

What's happening is that OZ mounts the SD disk with the 'nodev'
mount option, so none of the device files in the chroot will work :-(

You'll need to edit the /etc/fstab used by OZ, or alternatively run
the following command to change the setting at run time:

	mount /mnt/card -o remount,dev,suid,exec

> Moving onwards slightly, I assume it wouldn't be too difficult to edit
> the files in rc2.d to stop Opie from starting - giving a 5,4,3,2,1 sort
> of option like the Sharp ROM has? Is this worth doing, would it help?,
> as it still doesn't seem to be working.

Is there a Debian standard way of deciding what GUI environment gets 
launched at boot?

Otherwise a simple boot menu like you describe (with a timeout) would be
nice.

The following script fragment is what I use in the native Debian boot
loader shell script, you could adapt it for a GUI menu easily.

The read_timeout shell function is rather hackish, but I couldn't think
of a cleaner way of doing it without depending on any external programs.

-Klaus

#!/bin/sh

read_timeout () {
        sh -c '( sleep "'$1'" && kill $$ ) >/dev/null & read i; kill $!; echo "$
i"' 2>/dev/null
}

echo
echo "*** Pocket Workstation boot loader ***"
echo
echo -n "Boot (d)ebian, (s)hell or (q)topia environment? [d] "
r=`read_timeout 10`

if [ ."$r" = ."q" ]; then
        # run qtopia via native init
        exec /sbin/init
fi
if [ ."$r" = ."s" ]; then
        # run a shell only
        exec /bin/bash
        exec /bin/sh
fi

# ok, let's continue with the Debian system

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