This gets read_contents_file working, hopefully error() is the only gtk related

sub to watch out for.

BootRoot/BootRoot.pm

@@ -779,7 +779,7 @@ else {
 
 # STAGE LOGIC - skip space_left and test
 # Stages  all have my $error  return if $error && $error eq "ERROR";
-# kernel_version_check() 
+# kernel_version_check() -- automatically
 #
 #  check() read_contents_file( "$template_dir$template", $tmp,
 #				    $filesystem_size, \%uml_expect );
@@ -796,28 +796,50 @@ else {
 #    return if $error && $error eq "ERROR";
 #
 #  create_uml()  create_expect_uml($filesystem_size, $tmp, $filename);
-
+########################################################
 # Let's read in the ARGV
 
+    die "specify a template found in $template_dir\nuse --template\n" 
+	if !$option{template};
 
     start_logging_output($verbosefn,$verbosity); # Yard "tmp dir name" 
     
-                                             # "verbosity level"
-#info(1, "hello there\n");
 
 
+#	   $kernel                    = $ars->{kernel};
+#	   $kernel_version_choice     = $ars->{kernel_version_choice};
 
-my $it = kernel_version_check();
+    $ars->{kernel} = $option{kernel};
-print $it;
+    ars2($ars);
+    $ars->{kernel_version_choice} = $option{"kernel-version"};
+    ars2($ars);
 
-#    read_contents_file( "$template_dir$template", $tmp,
+#my $it = kernel_version_check($option{kernel},$option{"kernel-version"});
-#			    $filesystem_size, \%uml_expect );
     
+    my $template = $option{template};
     
+    $option{"filesystem-size"}
+    ? ($filesystem_size = $option{"filesystem-size"})
+    : ($filesystem_size = 8192);
 
-    #print kernel_version_check(), "Hi there!\n";
+my $uml_exclusively = 0;  # assume genext2fs
+if ( $option{"uml-exclusively"} ) {
+    $option{"uml-exclusively"} eq "on" 
+    ? ($uml_exclusively = 1)
+    : ($uml_exclusively = 0);
+}
+
+$ars->{uml_exclusively} = $uml_exclusively;
+ars2($ars);  #not used in function below    
+
+read_contents_file( "$template_dir$template", $tmp,
+		    $filesystem_size);
 
 
+
+    #print kernel_version_check(), "Hi there!\n";
+######################################################
+
 }  # end if $::commandline
 
 } # end start

BootRoot/Yard.pm

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-############################################################################
+#############################################################################
 ##
 ##  Yard.pm combining
 ##  MAKE_ROOT_FS, CHECK_ROOT_FS, and YARD_UTILS.PL by Tom Fawcett
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ sub read_contents_file {
     kernel_version_check($kernel, $kernel_version_choice);
 
     # Open DEVICE_TABLE
+
     if ( $fs_type eq "genext2fs" ) {
 
 	unlink("$mnt/device_table.txt") if -e "$mnt/device_table.txt";   
@@ -1660,7 +1661,7 @@ sub cf_die {
   info(0, "$contents_file($cf_line): $line\n");
   foreach (@msgs) { info(0, "\t$_\n"); }
   my $output = join("\n",@msgs);
-  error_window("gBootRoot: ERROR: ", $output);
+  error_window("gBootRoot: ERROR: ", $output) if !%option;
   return "ERROR";
 }
 
@@ -1838,7 +1839,7 @@ sub error {
 
   print LOGFILE "Error: ", @_;
   info(0, "Error: ", @_);  
-  error_window("gBootRoot: ERROR: ", @_);
+  error_window("gBootRoot: ERROR: ", @_) if !%option;
   return "ERROR";
 
 }