Re: Re: Beta Cromwell release

> I would like to see booting from C:(FATX) in addition to E:. I made the
> modification(just a few lines without impacting any existing logic)
> though I am not sure if it is desirable as a standard way. The reason
> is that with this, I can keep the kernel/initrd at C: rather that E:,
> this makes cloning and upgrading a sofmod cleaner(copying 500M at most
> rather than 8G).

Yeah, I think this makes sense.  Why just C? If we can sort out the F/G
handling in Cromwell, we might as well try C, E, F, G.  The only problem
we're going into is the 'boot priority' of multiple devices.  It's a bit
flaky right now.  It prefers native over fatx, and fatx over CDROM. But
the last bootable partition of each is marked as default.
So, if you had a linuxboot.cfg on C AND one on E and F, which one gets
marked as default?  Presently, it is the order in which they are parsed.
(Which is only E at the moment, so doesnt really arise).
Needs a bit of thought to get right.

> How is the multiple boot option in linuxboot.cfg handled ? Another text
> menu ? Didn't have the time to try that yet.

Yep.  After you select the icon menu, it either:

displays a text menu with the default entry highlighted
or boots straightaway, if only one entry is in the linuxboot.cfg file.


> Thanks for the work especially the more than 4 icons and the text menu.

You're welcome.   On a side note, I don't believe you ever sent me the
xbeboot reliability fixes you had, I think.   More people are having
problems with it, so if you do have anything on this, it'd be greatly
appreciated.
Cheers,

David

>
> regards,
>
> gary




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