Bug#244959: should not pass the kernel environment to d-i

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:32:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: rootskel
> Severity: normal
> Tags: d-i
> 
> In bug #243011, one of the problems turned out to be because a script
> tested for $initrd, without always setting it, and $initrd is set in the
> environment from the kernel boot. I think that rootskel should clear
> most or all such envrionment variables, to prevent strange behavior. It
> would probably be best to do it somewhere in init.

yaboot-installer relies on having the kernel environment available to it
so that it can set video=ofonly in the installed system if it was needed
to boot d-i. If this is implemented, it would be very helpful if the
variables were made available somewhere else, and preferably for there
to be a grace period where they're available in both places.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]