On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 01:35, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 07:52:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > The current syslinux stuff for the boot floppies is quite bare. I don't > > remember about the cdrom. We need a nicely designed set of boot screens > > that is easy to ready and not offputting, but also provides all the > > information a user could want, including boot options (on a separate > > screen). The one from the boot-floppies should be looked at for useful > > ideas, but it is really too wordy and too intimidating. > > The CD-ROM is the same as it was for woody, which is OK. I miss the option to > use it as a rescue disk, though -- trying to boot with root=/dev/hda1 proved > almost impossible (at least I never figured it out), as it insisted loading > the installer initrd every time. > > /* Steinar */
I recommend that we add the grub rescue floppy image to the CD image; very useful for rescuing broken boots, and self-contained; pretty well tested in its own right. - Alastair > -- > Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = 9E64 E714 8E08 81F9 F3DC 1020 FA8E 3790 9051 38F4 He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
