On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 05:28:27PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Oct 19, 2004, at 9:40 AM, Duane Cottle wrote: > > >So far, I've found a few possible options if I want to pass kernel > >args w/ boot floppies on this box: > > > >1) Make my own miboot image - maybe a bit off track as I'm trying to > >test _these_ floppies; however, if I got that to work, my success might > >help the developers. (?) > > I've not tried this. It *may* work. But, as you say, it's off-track.
It does work fine his way. Actually the best idea is to build your own d-i miboot floppies, after having modified the adequate file (installer/build/config/powerpc/powerpc/floppy/boot.cfg i think). > >2) Pass 'boot-file' arguments from the OF prompt. Something, again, > >that > >_might_ help the wizards forego that requirement from installers on > >this platform: and something I've puposefully neglected doing for > >obvious reasons to those, like me, who spend too much time in OFland. > >;) > > I've tried this. It doesn't work. The arguments never get to the > kernel. I'm not sure why. > > > > >Both are yucky, but if nobody can give me course corrections, I guess > >I'm headed back down. Oh, where are you liloppc or grubppc? > > > >Regards, > >Duane > > I've been wondering about maybe trying the following... > > BootX takes a kernel image and an initrd image and loads them into > memory along with some kernel args. > > Why can't I take the kernel image and the ramdisk image off the > floppies and hand them to BootX along with my desired kerenel args? BootX should have kernel arg option. Not entirely sure since the version of it i have is localized in greek, so i didn't play with it much. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
