Re: Menu on bootup?

On 17 October 2011 19:16, Nevyn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does anyone know what the usual approach is to showing a menu AFTER a linux
> distro has been booted? I'm thinking in terms of the appliance type
> distributions like pfsense (not Linux I know) or Clonezilla... So a menu
> that shows up on tty1 only...
>
> --
> Regards,
> Nevyn
> http://nevsramblings.blogspot.com/
>

On Clonezilla I've found:
/etc/init.d/start-ocs-live
With the following contents:

exec </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1

[ ! -d "/etc/ocs/ocs-live.d/" ] && exit 1
for script in /etc/ocs/ocs-live.d/S[0-9][0-9]*; do
  $script
done

The script stuff is fairly trivial. I've never really understood file
descriptors. Is anyone able to explain that first line to me?

exec </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1

Regards,
Nevyn
http://nevsramblings.blogspot.com/
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