[syslinux] syslinux tool for Win2k and 'safeboot' option

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Oct 26 15:58:37 PDT 2002


Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> 
> More seriously, you could use "watchdog timer" hardware to bounce the
> system in general when it becomes unresponsive.
> 
> Still, it would be nice if there were someplace to store data between
> reboots independent of the filesystem.  My interest in this is
> unattended Windows installation, where the initial disk partitioning
> (from DOS) requires rebooting the machine.  I would like my
> installation process to be able to pick up where it left off, which is
> tricky when you are editing the partition table and rebooting...
> 

You know, you actually *have* that state already.  Create the partition 
table, compare it with the that's on the disk, if not the same, install 
and reboot.  If it *is* the same, keep going...

	-hpa






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