[Debootloaders-silo] Bug#507802: silo: Lacks boot-time help

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Package: silo
Version: 1.4.13-1
Severity: wishlist


Splack (Slackware for SPARC) has a section in silo.conf reading

-----8<-----
image="cat /boot/silo.conf"
          label="config"
----->8-----

Having this makes it easier to see what kernels are available when 
booting, e.g. because an upgraded kernel crashes.

Similarly, a help section showing the commands that SILO obeys- in 
particular the one to transfer control beck to ROM- would be useful.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
   APT prefers stable
   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: sparc (sparc64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-sparc64-smp
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages silo depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

silo recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information