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Bug#284425: marked as done (too hard to pass parameters to modules, especially implicitly loaded ones)

Your message dated Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:48:45 -0800
with message-id <E1FJdrJ-0003Gx-Iq@spohr.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#284425: fixed in rootskel 1.30
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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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Source: rootskel
Source-Version: 1.30

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
rootskel, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

rootskel-bootfloppy_1.30_i386.udeb
  to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel-bootfloppy_1.30_i386.udeb
rootskel_1.30.dsc
  to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_1.30.dsc
rootskel_1.30.tar.gz
  to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_1.30.tar.gz
rootskel_1.30_i386.udeb
  to pool/main/r/rootskel/rootskel_1.30_i386.udeb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 284425@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> (supplier of updated rootskel package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.7
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:59:03 -0500
Source: rootskel
Binary: rootskel-bootfloppy rootskel
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.30
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Description: 
 rootskel   - Skeleton root filesystem used by debian-installer (udeb)
 rootskel-bootfloppy - Skeleton root filesystem used by debian-installer boot floppy (udeb)
Closes: 284425 353942
Changes: 
 rootskel (1.30) unstable; urgency=low
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   * Add S01module-params startup script which parses the kernel command line
     for things of the form module.param=value and calls register-modules -a -p
     to make the parameters get used when the modules are later loaded.
     This allows passing parameters in the same form used for parameters
     of modules that are built into the kernel, and have them take effect with
     modules loaded by eg, udev. Closes: #353942, #284425
   * Needs di-utils 1.24.
Files: 
 e213a3e2d60c07058cf65eb14966fcdf 774 debian-installer standard rootskel_1.30.dsc
 9d182c885773ddb01bac2fc678f000bf 24360 debian-installer standard rootskel_1.30.tar.gz
 25defcf8bd4a3c1f88c0186121a4cee4 6012 debian-installer standard rootskel_1.30_i386.udeb
 d8ca9e1c7d7ae4521d8c2a29770f7a8e 2708 debian-installer extra rootskel-bootfloppy_1.30_i386.udeb
Package-Type: udeb

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