Re: [Fwd: Added "stage2-diskless" build]

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

At Sat, 05 Jan 2002 23:43:27 +0100,
Christoph Plattner wrote:
> As we have now a `--config-file' option, it is possible to let
> the user start the network setup inside the preset menu
> or to reorganize the build to have only one version of GRUB
> (nothing like SUPPORT_DISKLESS) and the make builds up 
> GRUBs without preset menu and GRUBs with preset menus
> (default one for diskless or one of the user). The #ifdef
> SUPPORT_DISKLESS
> in builtins.c and so on should be replaced by variables (flags),
> and GRUB should determine, if it was netbooted or local booted
> to set the falgs.

I see. I'd like to choose the former, just because it is easier.

> And one further point: The GRUB shell should not (must not)
> process the preset menu. This leads to some bad effects and
> a preset menu does not make sense on a shell based GRUB.
> So I tested a self patched GRUB version: The menu init state
> (my state machine) starts with 2 instead of in the built
> for the GRUB shell, so not to process the preset menu and
> not to start something like network setup....

Hmm... That's a good point. It was useful to enable the preset menu in
the grub shell when debugging the feature, though. So I'll add an
option into the grub shell so that you can choose if the grub shell
uses the preset menu or not at run-time.

Thanks,
Okuji

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