For install2, this is needed to work around error 99-cdrom.sh with method:cdrom.
The error shows up with make-initrd-bootchain, but not propagator, as lowmem is
enabled for propagator in this mode.
For rescue, the point is that the latter has become quite large, so by default
it would be better that way.

Suggested-by: andy@

...instead of hardwired 0x314 (which is rather wrong
for modern kernels and hardware, just ran into that
with yet another Matrox G200eW WPCM450).

This keyword was misused due to the lack of understanding
of its meaning; thanks zerg@ for the hint, let's hide the
kernel boot parameters not expected to be modified by user
under the hood (and vice versa in some cases).

Note that this is just a keyword shift in all cases
but mediacheck where "showopts" is now added.

NB: this keyword is only relevant for gfxboot.

"Failsafe install" disabling APIC/LAPIC looks somewhat obsolete
by now; the only reasonable part seems to be the attempt to force
VESA videodriver for the installer (should be done within installer
itself though).

Its immediate purpose was influencing the GRUB boot menu
*but* the implemented mechanism is actually a part of the
long planned text branding and might be further merged
into branding when hierarchical features finally chime in.

So let's get the naming straight before it breeds.

This trots along the TODO item on text branding
and hopefully helps Michael Radyuk (torabora)
with his feature request to tweak the installer's
"Install ALT Linux" label; as an example, Simply
will now offer to "Install Simply Linux".

An initial draft of it was done half a year ago but several tricky
thingies had kept the code from showing up as it was rather brittle
and incomplete.

This implementation involves quite a few changes all over the place
but finally works good enough for live and installer images.

Please pay attention to the versions of these packages:
- installer-feature-setup-plymouth (0.3.2-alt1+)
- branding-altlinux-sisyphus (20110706-alt2+ if used)
- plymouth (0.8.3-alt20.git20110406+)

See also:
- http://www.altlinux.org/Branding
- http://www.altlinux.org/Plymouth

- parameter order fixed to "simple first, then those with args"
  and documented as the preferred one (might be debatable, okay)
- added "lowmem" to live so it avoids a ramdisk but works off media
  (it's a knob for propagator)
- added "fastboot" everywhere (but failsafe install) to make use
  of Linux 2.6.29+ async controller initialization
- every snippet got a trailing newline so that isolinux.cfg is readable

And a fancy makefile to check for shortcut dups!

Implementation based on m-p-d::profiles/scripts.d/03-syslinux
(but heavily modified for m-p of course)

Renamed server-light.iso into server-ovz.iso to avoid brand dilution
and confusion (rider@'s server-light rather favours kvm, anyways).

Introduced KDEFAULT: a reliable default kernel chooser knob
since apt's regex ordering proved pretty unreliable.
Spelling things explicitly is better anyways.

SYSLINUX related features undergone pretty major rewrite
(that includes syslinux, hdt and memtest).

The problem to tackle was features.in/syslinux/generate.mk
assuming syslinux and pciids available in build *host* system;
this well might not be the case (or worse yet, those can be
just different).  So now we're a bit less elegant and a bit
more enterprise, stuffing things into chroot and working there.

Bunch of other fixes along the road, including ; to name a few:
- fixed memtest entry (overlooked while renaming SYSLINUX_ITEMS)
- new and shiny doc/CodingStyle
- gfxboot, stage1 target chain, hdt tweaks
- distro.mk rehashed
- README++
- TODO: dropped (integer overflow anyways)
  + actually moved off-tree to reduce commit spam
- s,\.config\.mk,distcfg.mk,g
- doc/profiles.mk.sample: sample ~/.mkimage/profiles.mk
- ...and assorted fixups/additions

Sorry for convoluted commit, this would have been pretty hard to
rework into some really readable shape (and you might be interested
in the original repo's history horrors then, anyways).

Now we don't dump all the gory details onto thee
but rather log them handsomely and present only
the most important details by default; use DEBUG=1
and/or BUILDLOG=/path/to/file to tweak.

Also introduced IMAGEDIR and IMAGENAME.

The rest:
- ovz-smp is no more
- base-l10n pkglist (suggested by Alexander Kuprin)
- clean.mk:
  + fixed an oversight: the test result erroneously applied
    only to the first command of several ones that should be
    run iff build/ is a symlink
  + drop implicit rules (it's no C code)
- Makefile: more reasonable iso names
- image.in/Makefile: .disk/date too

- get rid of $dest
- work on features.in/syslinux
- README++