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Re: Patch for boot loader: "menu" command



On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 02:24:29PM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> Now, there are probably several ways to go around mending this.
> Some of them are:
> 
> 1) provide a way to display the contents of boot.cfg (but need to
>    prevent showing the "contents of /netbsd"...)
> 2) provide a way to recall and edit one of the boot commands from
>    boot.cfg (sounds complicated, and more than I intended to chew
>    off in this round)
> 3) provide a way to re-enter the boot menu you dropped from in
>    the first step in the procedure above, and then allow to
>    select one of the boot methods already specified in boot.cfg

How about change "boot" to use whatever boot.cfg says is the default
boot option, and "boot ...anything..." to be the override-the-menu
command?

Eric



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