Muilti boot
Posted: 22 Aug 2019, 07:45
Hi.
I have installed Porteus-Kiosk and love it! I am using a central porteus.cfg file which is hosted on a webserver to manage several kiosks remotely. This file includes all the porteus settings including the homepage.
What I would like to do is to present a menu on boot up that allows the user to lock the kiosk into either one homepage or a second different homepage.
I thought this could be achieved by using syslinux bootloader with an overlay .dat file.
isolinux.cfg
I'm not sure which file I'd need to change within the dat file, and what I'd need to put in there.
Presumably just a single line that contains the kiosk_config setting for each homepage.
eg.
Would this work? Or is there a better solution?
thanks in advance.
I have installed Porteus-Kiosk and love it! I am using a central porteus.cfg file which is hosted on a webserver to manage several kiosks remotely. This file includes all the porteus settings including the homepage.
What I would like to do is to present a menu on boot up that allows the user to lock the kiosk into either one homepage or a second different homepage.
I thought this could be achieved by using syslinux bootloader with an overlay .dat file.
isolinux.cfg
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DEFAULT site1
timeout 5
label site1
menu label Driver Knowledge Test System
kernel /boot/vmlinuz
append initrd=/boot/initrd.xz changes=/porteus/site1.dat changes-ro
label site2
menu label Public Access Internet Kiosk
kernel /boot/vmlinuz
append initrd=/boot/initrd.xz changes=/porteus/site2.dat changes-ro
Presumably just a single line that contains the kiosk_config setting for each homepage.
eg.
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site1.dat
kiosk_config=https://www.example.com/porteus1.cfg
site2.dat
kiosk_config=https://www.example.com/porteus2.cfgWould this work? Or is there a better solution?
thanks in advance.
