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

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

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:48:34AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sven Luther writes:
> 
> > I don't understand this ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > The d-i is well able to take care of all of this by itself,
> 
> No.  Before, you had to type out the whole command line, including
> root=/dev/ram0, or d-i would panic during the boot process.  Now, you

Well, this is not the case on yaboot using pmacs, not on chrp using pegasos, i
believe you have another problem.

> only need to change the root device from /dev/sda2 to /dev/ram0.  This
> bug is about making this obsolete as well.

Well, this bug is probably only the symptom of another problem.

> > This probably means that your adding of root=/dev/sda2 has broken
> > d-i on all powerpc subarches
> 
> No.  The built-in command line is only used by PReP systems.

Why is it only used by PReP ? I can well make it work for my chpr/pegasos
also, indeed i just did that this morning.

> > BTW, did you do a new build with kernel-source -5, as Joshk asked you to do ? 
> 
> No.  I never got a message from Josh.  And looking through the
> changelog, I don't see anything that would affect powerpc.

You obviously haven't read debian-kernel too, have you ? It is about some
broken xfmt4 or whatever driver in the kernel-source you are based on.

Friendly,

Sven Luther