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

[Mate Kosor]

I like would like it in FAI. Tried to make something like this in
lilo+etherboot unsuccessfully.

Mate Kosor

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Niklaus Giger wrote:

> 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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