Re: Menu on bootup?

Nevyn <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:34:57 +1300
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
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On 18 October 2011 10:58, Jan Bakuwel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Nevyn,
>
>
> On 17/10/11 19:16, Nevyn 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...
>
> I've used something called "pdmenu" in the past - is that something that
> would fit?
>
> cheers,
> Jan


Hey... that's kind of pretty. The issue isn't how to generate a menu, but
more, how would you get it to start a menu in tty1 when booting off a
liveusb?

It occurred to me that I could just put a test for tty1 from .bashrc. And
then it turns out that casper does some magic-fu that means that there is no
/home on the live media. Going to play with persistence now. Maybe that'll
yield the results I need.

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