Patch to add re-Install menu entry for grub/menu.lst

[Niklaus Giger]

Hi

As I stated in a prior message I was looking for a simple way to re-install 
using FAI. As I have just a small home network to maintain (which takes much 
too many hours to make my wife happy) I came to the conclusion that a good 
idea in this context is to give the choice to the user when starting up the 
computer (which may be not the case in a different/larger setup).

It is not much tested but works in my environment. Is there any interest in 
accepting this patch for fai-2.5 (or later). If so I am willing to improve on 
it (adding a option for it in fai.conf or whatever file is considered good 
for this purpose) and add a patch along the same line for lilo also.

Index: scripts/BOOT
===================================================================
--- scripts/BOOT        (revision 11)
+++ scripts/BOOT        (working copy)
@@ -67,6 +67,16 @@
        kernel $kernelname
        $initrdopt
 EOF
+
+    # BOOT_IMAGE is set if BOOT-Parameters set by DCHP
+    if [[ "$BOOT_IMAGE" == "" ]] ; then BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-`uname -r` ; fi
+    echo "Now BOOT_IMAGE is $BOOT_IMAGE"
+[ -f /boot/$BOOT_IMAGE ] && cp -v /boot/$BOOT_IMAGE $target/boot && cat >> 
$target/boot/grub/menu.lst <<-EOF
+       title Debian GNU/Linux, Fully Automatic re-Installation
+       root $broot
+       kernel /boot/$BOOT_IMAGE root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp FAI_FLAGS=$FAI_FLAGS 
FAI_LOCATION=$FAI_LOCATION
+EOF
+
     if ifclass BOOTWINDOWS; then
     cat >> $target/boot/grub/menu.lst <<-EOF

Thanks a lot for everybody for their work on FAI. It really rocks once you get 
to know a few things about it.

Best regards

-- 
Niklaus Giger
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CH-8753 Mollis
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