isolinux/u-boot_tftp/build_tftp_uboot_scripts.sh
Added Slackware Installer boot scripts that can be sourced via tftp and will
boot in to the installer using the same settings found in the INSTALL_<system>
documentation.
Currently the purpose of this is purely to save pasting so many commands in to
the U-Boot console, which on the Banana Pi has irritated me for a long time due
to the small amount of text that can be pasted in to it in one go (contrasted
with the Trimslice where I can paste paragraphs of commands separated by semi
colons).
I may extend this to set more configuration so that you can follow a
pre-defined model of how your system should be, and have less work to do at
the U-Boot console. It'd be not too dissimilar to the “images” that other
distributions supply, in the sense that you don't need as much experience to
get a known configuration on a supported device working for you.
Currently there is no mention of this in the INSTALL_ documentation, but I'll add
that in later once I figure out what else I might do in this space.
Thanks to the contributors of this thread for inspiration and research:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-arm-108/tftp-u-boot-script-4175591119/
A few people have emailed me expressing an interest in this (please don't email
me about development ideas - post on the forum – I do read it), and expanding
it to make U-Boot automatically find the
OS configuration (contained
within one of these U-Boot scripts) and boot it. Most of the U-Boot configurations
by default attempt to locate such a script and boot it, so it's quite possible
to make a 'liloconfig' type script for the known devices, but will require
some research and coding.
If you're interested, please post on that forum.
Giuseppe Di Terlizzi