Craig Sanders wrote:
also, the environment and console isn't set up quite right (e.g. ^C wont kill an app) so you'll need to set it up with stty.
If you have a one-liner to enable job control in pid 1, please share it. atm I use open (as you mentioned) as a workaround.
and recent ipxe packages in debian can optionally add an ipxe entry to the grub menu so you can still netboot in case you're not fast enough to press F8 or F12 or whatever to get the BIOS boot selection menu. useful.
Got an opinion on ipxe vs. gpxe?
ps: for the OP - if you every wondered why grub has the option for setting a password, then disabling the ability to edit the boot command line is one of the main reasons...useful in, e.g., a computer lab at a university, but anyone who has physical access to the machine can defeat simple security measures like this.
...hence the tamper-detection reed switches in e.g. Dells. (Not that it helps much IMO)