probing a system for drives in the pre phase

[Philip Rowlands]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dan Carpenter wrote:

>I haven't been able to figure out how to get access to the console for
>a user friendly UI...  I do everything in a different console and
>that's not as good.

It's not really a problem on a VGA console, as chvt(1) can bring any VT
to the "foreground". Not sure what would happen with serial.

For ananconda-like interaction, I'd suggest scripting with dialog. This
is all assuming text-mode interaction, which is all that's available in
%pre (before the second stage loads).


Cheers,
Phil