[syslinux] Reboot from /bin/bash

[Chris Miller]

Hi Folks,

GRUB claims to provide a feature that I want, but that doesn't really work.
With GRUB you can presumably run GRUB from the command line of a shell and
see the menu of boot options that would be presented if you were actually
booting.  You can select a stanza from the configfile and invoke it right
then and there causing the machine to reboot as though you had selected this
option from the GRUB menu during a system boot.  The problem is that GRUB
doesn't work -- at least I can't get it to work.  Seems simple enough -- you
type, "boot" at the command prompt.  Not much room for error there, but I
get nothing...

I'd like to be able to do this for a headless machine, so I can, for example
specify an install.  Under the current discipline, headless machines will
always boot the default menu stanza, because they don't have the options to
make choices and that default will be boot a running full distribution on
the USB rescue kit -- presumably for rescue purposes.

Does EXTLinux have a feature enabling command line invocation from the
shell?  It turn out that this feature is important enough to my strategy
that if it is not available, I may have to work with you guys to develop
it...



Chris.	
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