Bug 46863 – mingetty prompt on the livecd can't interpret \O in issue.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2004-04-05 08:20:00 UTC]

I'd suggest removing the \O macro from the issue on the livecd-stage1.

[Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-04-05 08:35:59 UTC]

FWIW, \O is b0rked on busybox too

[Comment 2 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-04-05 13:26:46 UTC]

I am not quite sure that I am understanding this. What is the offending line and line #?

[Comment 3 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2004-04-05 14:06:39 UTC]

See this as a feature request. 

If catalyst builds a livecd, tty2-tty7 display a

This is LiveCD.O (Linux blahblah) 

heading. The /etc/issue file determines the format of that line.
The contents of that file is a template, with various variables indicated by a '\' followed by a char. 
\O should be replaced by the hostname, but the gettty program we use on the livecd does not support the \O variable. It would be nice if you could add a line to livecd-stage1 which replaces the \O with for instance

"Gentoo"

That will  display 

This is LiveCD.Gentoo (Linux blahblah)

[Comment 4 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-04-26 08:11:30 UTC]

ok, fixed in the default runscript:
 # fix /etc/issue for mingetty and friends
 echo "This is \n.gentoo (\s \m \r) \t" > /etc/issue