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| author | Dubiousjim <dubiousjim@gmail.com> | 2013-06-29 16:41:26 -0400 |
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| committer | Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> | 2013-06-30 11:19:59 +0000 |
| commit | 5eebfc3d655b327fcd0e6ba306e226516a70ce2f (patch) | |
| tree | d75ebaf0afe3b335a5b065767f5884abbe26a260 /main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf | |
| parent | faf4eed0066294cad5e0b71f5a9315f42abd9a33 (diff) | |
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main/syslinux: add Hardware Detection Tool entry
HDT provides a curses-like interface to display lots of hardware info
about your machine at bootloader time.
We don't install /boot/hdt.c32, but if it's present (it can be copied from
/usr/share/syslinux/hdt.c32), we add a menu entry for it---in preference to,
rather than in addition to, memtest, since HDT has a menu entry which invokes
memtest.
Using HDT to its full capacity requires finding or generating modules.pcimap
and pci.ids files for your machine, and installing them in /boot. We might want
to document this, which I don't here (but the online docs for HDT do). These
aren't required to use other functionality of HDT; and it's pretty useful
already without those.
Diffstat (limited to 'main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf')
| -rw-r--r-- | main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf b/main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf index 5a36a1f1c1..6c83349d4e 100644 --- a/main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf +++ b/main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf @@ -45,4 +45,7 @@ xen_opts=dom0_mem=256M # if you copy /usr/share/syslinux/reboot.c32 to /boot/, a menu entry will be auto-generated for it -# a menu entry will also be auto-generated for /boot/memtest, if you download it and install it +# if you copy /usr/share/syslinux/hdt.c32 to /boot/, a menu entry will be auto-generated for it + +# if you download and install /boot/memtest, then if HDT is present it will use it, else a separate +# menu entry will be auto-generated for memtest |