FILO 0.3

Stefan Reinauer stepan at suse.de
Tue Oct 7 16:14:01 CEST 2003


* Nathanael Noblet <nathanael at gnat.ca> [031007 21:48]:
> I was wondering (in fact started modifying 0.2) to have a config file
> like grub does, so that it by default checks for that file and loads
> the default kernel there...? I haven't gotten that far along, but is
> this something worth pursuing? I just figured it would be nice to have
> a boot prompt etc so that the kernel to boot doesn't have to be
> hardcoded into the flash, which means I can play around with different
> kernels and not worry about it, as well as not having to type in the
> kernel path and all that everytime...?

Having a config file for filo sounds like a really great idea. 
A parser for something similar to grub's menu.lst should be rather
small to implement, i.e. scan for "title", then get all "kernel",
"initrd" and possibly "module" entries for that title, and repeat the
same for all "title"s. Additionally "timeout" and "default" would be
interesting to control autoboot.
With such a system installed on an awkward/phoenix/ami machine could
just be plugged into a LinuxBIOS box and work out of the box.

Stefan

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