Package: debian-installer Richard Hector wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 10:13:59PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Richard Hector wrote: > > > I've downloaded a netinst iso that has 2.6.8, so that bit should be ok, > > > and I then boot with either > > > > > > linux26 hda=stroke > > > > > > or > > > > > > expert26 hda=stroke > > > > As far as I know passing parameters to the ide (or whatever) module like > > this will only work if it's built into the kernel, not if it's a module. > > If it's a module the parameter has to be passed when the module is > > modprobed. When you boot in expert mode it should let you specifiy > > module parameters before loading whichever module is the one that > > processes this parameter and you can enter it there. > > Excellent, thanks - that certainly pointed me in the right direction. > > Unfortunately, the module that needs the option is ide_core, and that > isn't loaded explicitly by the installer, so I had no chance to add the > option there. What I had to do was, once it said it was going to detect > the CDROM, I went to the 2nd VC and ran > > modprobe ide_core options="hda=stroke" > > (and working out the options= bit took some time, too ...), then I > returned to the installer and didn't need to specify anything else. > > The next problem is that, presumably because the installer knew nothing > about what I had done, it didn't add the option to the initrd image > either, so on reboot I'm back to a 33.8G disk. I'm now working through > how to recreate the initrd image ... Ugh, that could be better. One thing I've been considering is passing all kernel parameters to modules in the modprobe line always. I'm not sure how all modules would react to this, hopefully they'd just ignore unknown parameters. We may try that eventually. Of course it wouldn't help with passing the parameter on the installed system. -- see shy jo
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