progress messages
Steve Robson
srobson at cadence.com
Wed Dec 5 16:55:33 UTC 2007
> Subject: RE: Couple of questions
> From: "Joe_Wulf" <Joe_Wulf at yahoo.com>
>
> Thank you both for the helpful feedback.
>
> My post section does a number of things before ever letting the system boot.
> My desire was to see some progress messages on the console while that process was
> working. Such as "reached point x", "reached point y". The display of them to
> "/dev/console" wasn't very pretty and attempts to clean it up hasn't proven
> successful. Was hoping someone has also done this and found a way to have lines
> of text display neatly.
Not exactly the same, but similar; in my %pre section I make an NFS
mount and then run a script from the mount. Verbiage in that script is
simply echoed out:
echo "blah blah"
and this appears on VC3, with proper cr/lf. Hope this helps,
--
Regards,
Steve
IT Support - UNIX/Linux Cadence Design Systems
Bagshot Road
Bracknell BERKSHIRE
RG12 0PH UK
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