From 5eebfc3d655b327fcd0e6ba306e226516a70ce2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dubiousjim Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:41:26 -0400 Subject: 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. --- main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'main/syslinux/update-extlinux.conf') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3