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Originally Posted by neutrino15
It should be possible to just have it start up without a window-manager, maybe log in, start up only the serial driver, and execute a compiled C app. Maybe we could make it boot like that in "competition mode" Then maybe if you insert a usb drive with a certain script on it, the machine would boot normally.. (gets ideas!)
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I feel old-school.
But maybe take a look at
http://www.freedos.org/
It'll give you a DOS command prompt, and you can tweak your AUTOEXEC.BAT to execute your app. I'm not sure about FreeDOS' USB support, but if it there, you can probably write a script in your AUTOEXEC that'll check for an additional mounted drive and run a script from there instead.
Question though, the board doesn't have any harddrive storage right? Would you hook up a SATA drive, or a CF solid state?
OR just boot off USB keys?
If you do the latter, you'd just plug in different USB keys depending on which "mode" you wanted, right?