Bug#268986: Please set correct command line for PowerPC PReP kernel image

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:15:12AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The current PowerPC kernel-image packages, i.e. revision 2.6.8-3,
> contain a built-in command line that enables most PReP systems to boot
> unattended from hard disk.  It would be nice if the command line was
> correct for the installation images as well; this is a simple matter
> of replacing the root device in the kernel binary.  The following will
> do the job:
> 
>  perl -pi -e s+/dev/sda2+/dev/ram0+ vmlinuz-prep.initrd
> 
> This should probably go into installer/build/config/powerpc.cfg, after
> the mkvmlinuz loop.

I don't understand this ? The d-i is well able to take care of all of this by
itself, or at least it should. This probably means that your adding of
root=/dev/sda2 has broken d-i on all powerpc subarches if this is going to be
a problem. Thankfully we are still not using this -3 kernel, but still the old
-2 one in d-i.

BTW, did you do a new build with kernel-source -5, as Joshk asked you to do ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther