auto bootup

Forum: DSL Tips and Tricks
Topic: auto bootup
started by: Big_Pc_Man

Posted by Big_Pc_Man on July 23 2007,21:03

Is there a way to have the "dsl opt=sda1" and/or any other cheat codes followed by "return" entered automatically to enable the boot process to complete without stopping. I've searched around but did not come up with an answer. My system uses syslinux.cfg which has in it the following:

DEFAULT linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
TIMEOUT 300

PROMPT 1
DISPLAY boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 f2
F3 f3
LABEL dsl
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL memtest
KERNEL memtest
APPEND initrd=
LABEL dsl-txt
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=normal initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL expert
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce BOOT_IMAGE=expert
LABEL fb1280x1024
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=794 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL fb1024x768
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL fb800x600
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=788 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL lowram
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=normal initrd=minirt24.gz noscsi noideraid nosound nousb nofirewire noicons minimal nomce noapic noapm quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL install
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=normal initrd=minirt24.gz noscsi noideraid nosound nofirewire noicons base norestore _install_ nomce noapic noapm quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL failsafe
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=normal atapicd nosound noscsi nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa initrd=minirt24.gz BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL userdef
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ########################################

Big Pc Man

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 23 2007,21:33

Try placing it under the default entry's append line.

Posted by Big_Pc_Man on July 23 2007,21:49

Thanks for the response. As a guess I put "opt=sda1" right after the "vga=xxx" and that seems to work fine. I also shortened the 300 to 30 to get the boot to occur faster.

Big Pc Man

Posted by 9a6or on Nov. 04 2007,23:25

Note the last three lines in the file:

LABEL userdef
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ########################################

Based on this I have added a new entry in syslinux.cfg which uses the LABEL dsl entry as a starting point with added cheatcodes after APPEND. So that I remember my new entry, I also inserted a line in the file f2.