Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>:

stage2small-progs.diff: include disktype _and tail_ (I
somehow missed it in the previous patch) in stage 2 small.
Incremential: apply after bzip2-ed-bootdisk only.
linuxrc-opt.diff: optimize the device scanning a bit.


git-svn-id: http://www.rocklinux.org/svn/rock-linux/trunk@2047 c5f82cb5-29bc-0310-9cd0-bff59a50e3bc

Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
  - Alan J. Wylie: updated spamassassin and clamav
  - Dimitar Zhekov: workaround for memtest86 to avoid gcc-33 if possible
                    updated mplayer
+                   the real tail/head and disktype for the small 2nd_stage
+                   space optimisations for the linuxrc
 
 *) 2003-12-21 (2.0.0-rc3 - 2.0.0-rc4)
 

target/bootdisk/build_stage2.sh

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ ln -s bin sbin ; ln -s . usr
 progs="agetty bash cat cp date dd df ifconfig ln ls mine mkdir mke2fs \
        mkswap mount mv rm reboot route sleep swapoff swapon sync umount \
        eject chmod chroot grep halt rmdir sh shutdown uname killall5 \
-       stone mktemp sort fold sed mkreiserfs cut"
+       stone mktemp sort fold sed mkreiserfs cut head tail disktype"
 
 progs="$progs fdisk sfdisk"
 
@@ -157,9 +157,6 @@ for i in gui_text mod_install mod_packages mod_gas default ; do
 	cp -v ../2nd_stage/etc/stone.d/$i.sh etc/stone.d
 done
 #
-echo_status "Copy head replacement script."
-cp $base/target/$target/head bin/head ; chmod +x bin/head
-#
 echo_status "Creating links for identical files."
 while read ck fn
 do

target/bootdisk/head

@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-m=10
-
-useage () {
-	echo "Usage: head [OPTION]... [FILE]..."
-	echo -e "\t-n,-[0-9]+\tprint first NUMBER lines instead of first 10"
-	exit 1
-}
-
-while [ "$1" ] ; do
-	case "$1" in
-		-n)	m="$2"	; shift ; shift ;;
-		-[0-9]*)	m=${1#-}; shift ;;
-		-*)	useage ;;
-		*)	break;
-	esac
-done
-
-exec grep -m$m "" $*
-

target/bootdisk/linuxrc.c

@@ -218,42 +218,29 @@ void load_modules(char * dir)
 
 void load_ramdisk_file()
 {
+	char *devicelists[2] = { "/dev/cdroms/cdrom%d", "/dev/floppy/%d" };
+	char *devicenames[2] =
+	{ "CD-ROM #%d (IDE/ATAPI or SCSI)", "FDD (Floppy Disk Drive) #%d" };
 	char *devn[10], *desc[10];
 	char text[100], devicefile[100];
 	char filename[100];
 	int nr=0;
-	int tmp_nr;
-	int found;
+	int i, tmp_nr;
 
 	printf("Select a device for loading the 2nd stage system from: \n\n");
-	
-	for (tmp_nr = 0, found = 1; found; ++tmp_nr) {
-		sprintf(devicefile, "/dev/cdroms/cdrom%d", tmp_nr);
-		sprintf(text, "CD-ROM #%d (IDE/ATAPI or SCSI)", tmp_nr+1);
-
-		if ( ! access (devicefile, R_OK) ) {
-			desc[nr] = strdup (text);
-			devn[nr++] = strdup (devicefile);
-		}
-		else {
-			found = 0;
-		}
-	}
 
-	tmp_nr = 0; found = 1;
-	for (tmp_nr = 0, found = 1; found; ++tmp_nr) {
-		sprintf(devicefile, "/dev/floppy/%d", tmp_nr);
-		sprintf(text, "FDD (Floppy Disk Drive) #%d", tmp_nr+1);
+	for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
+		for (tmp_nr = 0; ; ++tmp_nr) {
+			sprintf(devicefile, devicelists[i], tmp_nr);
+			sprintf(text, devicenames[i], tmp_nr+1);
 
-		if ( ! access (devicefile, R_OK) ) {
+			if ( access (devicefile, R_OK) ) break;
+			
 			desc[nr] = strdup (text);
 			devn[nr++] = strdup (devicefile);
 		}
-		else {
-			found = 0;
-		}
 	}
-	
+
 	desc[nr] = devn[nr] = NULL;
 
 	for (nr=0; desc[nr]; nr++) {