Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted

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Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted

Post#1 by miguipda » 13 Jun 2012, 20:10

Hi,

it could be more interesting if Porteus could add the required lines in the /boot/porteus.cfg following the already installed OS (on other partitions).
I had WIndows on my /mnt/sda1 and I just installed Porteus on my /mnt/sda3 but I can not get back to be able to boot on my Windows partition :
http://porteus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=1282

Then please help me to be able to do it and update Porteus to be able to automatically detect and change the porteus.cfg.

Sincerely thanks and have a nice day,

Miguipda ;-)

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Re: Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted

Post#2 by fanthom » 13 Jun 2012, 21:28

I'll replace "Run memtest utility" with "Boot from the first hd" for porteus-1.2

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LABEL hd
MENU LABEL Boot from the first hd
COM32 /boot/syslinux/chain.c32
APPEND hd0 1
TEXT HELP
    Don't start Porteus at all, but
    rather run any operating system
    installed on the first partition
    of the hard drive
ENDTEXT
this option is probably more useful (how many times one is running RAM test?)
thanks for suggestion.
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Re: Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted

Post#3 by brokenman » 13 Jun 2012, 22:18

Good idea! Have to say i've never run memtest from Porteus. I always a memdisk boot disk.
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Re: Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted

Post#4 by Lukas » 22 Jun 2012, 15:48

fanthom wrote:this option is probably more useful (how many times one is running RAM test?)
thanks for suggestion.
Addition of Copy to RAM/LXDE would be even more useful - just for safely browsing the internet without unnecessary sesion switching.
Current KDE ram boot is too heavy - mainly memory footprint.

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Re: Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted

Post#5 by fanthom » 22 Jun 2012, 15:56

@Lukas
i would say that it's a matter of preferences (one could also request text mode + copy2ram, pxe boot + copy2ram, etc..) and editing of porteus.cfg is quite easy so i must say no.

btw: KDE requires copy2ram more than lxde.
lxde is vary fast even without it.
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Re: Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted

Post#6 by Lukas » 22 Jun 2012, 16:13

fanthom wrote:btw: KDE requires copy2ram more than lxde.
lxde is vary fast even without it.
We misunderstood each other - its not about speed, but rather amount of free RAM - i have habit of running 150+ tabs. Yes that much. because i start in the morning and end in the afternoon :) And after just few hours KDE is a hog.

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Re: Multiboot porteus.cfg adapted

Post#7 by fanthom » 23 Jun 2012, 16:41

Lukas wrote:We misunderstood each other
ok - but my argument about easiness of editing porteus.cfg and adding lxde cheat next to copy2ram is still valid.

please remember that porteus.cfg is just a sample. users must adapt it to their own needs as we wont be able to please everybody.
and i still think kde needs copy2ram more than lxde (speed is the main factor here) so i'm not going to change defaults in this case.
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