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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/30/2018 12:23 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Den 2018-01-30 kl. 19:15, skrev Israel:
>> On 01/30/2018 02:55 AM, psutton wrote:
>>>
>>> On 27/01/18 13:07, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>>> Den 2018-01-26 kl. 23:21, skrev Israel: ...
>
> Hi Israel,
>
> You should be able to let it boot into a text screen, where you can
> use a dialog text menu for the alternatives. One alternative can be to
> run startx (providing the necessary program packages are installed.
>
> See for example this link (scroll down and you will find some dialog
> menus),
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/UEFI-and-BIOS/stable-alternative
>
>
> Best regards
> Nio

Hi all,

My testing of this text-mode-menu has not gone extremely well.  But I
have been using the time to consolidate OBI code further into more
common functions which provide more error checking, and logging.  I have
used some of the code from ISOmaker (which is well tested and I have
used countless times, and improved over time) to re-implement things
that I had done in OBI in an earlier time when my understanding of the
chroot and shell scripting was much less than it is now.

So currently I am refining OBI further.  Nio, if you want to send me a
simple way you boot into a terminal logged in, and then launch x on the
appropriate tty I would appreciate your added input here.  I have done
these things in a few ways, but do not have a completely adequate
solution in place (so I have reverted to starting X by default)

Once I have tweaked the last bits (I have been testing and tweaking the
code a lot recently) to fully adapt things, and make sure everything is
using the new functions properly I will upload the ISO.

Sorry this has taken so long, but I've needed to do this for a while, to
make OBI more stable.  I have found various areas where there were bugs
hidden by a lack of error checking.

I am explicitly sending more variables to functions to avoid strange
bleed over stuff...

I will keep you all posted

-- 
Regards