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Bug#768340: marked as done (win32-loader: Please use "---" not "--" on installers kernel command line)

Your message dated Tue, 18 Nov 2014 07:33:45 +0000
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and subject line Bug#768340: fixed in win32-loader 0.7.7
has caused the Debian Bug report #768340,
regarding win32-loader: Please use "---" not "--" on installers kernel command line
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer-utils
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org

(CCing debian-kernel just FYI, since I don't think this can/should be
fixed with a kernel change, likewise filing against
debian-installer-utils and not the kernel even though a kernel change
introduced the breakage)

A recent change to the kernel[0] (from v3.15 onwards) has changed the
way the kernel handles its command line, such that it now ignores
anything passed after a "--" marker. This has broken d-i's own use of
that marker which was to separate options intended for the installer
only (before the marker) from those which are intended to be both
consumed by the d-i kernel and propagated to the final installation
(after the marker, returned by the user-params utility).

It used to be that you could do:
        vmlinuz some/preseed=value -- console=ttyFOO
which would have the dual affect of having the kernel console (and hence
installer UI) run on ttyFOO and also, via grub-installer's use of
user-params, propagate the console=ttyFOO into the final grub config
(similarly for other bootloaders).

With the kernel change this no longer works -- the kernel doesn't put
its console on ttyFOO since it stops parsing at the --. So you get
silence on boot.

To get the old behaviour you need
        vmlinuz some/preseed=value console=ttyFOO -- console=ttyFOO
which is pretty tedious.

Just using
        vmlinuz some/preseed=value console=ttyFOO
doesn't propagate the console=ttyFOO to the installed system.

Since the kernel change was related to the "systemd abusing kernel
cmdline" debacle I'm not overly keen on raising this upstream and I
don't think that changing the kernel in a way which diverges from
upstream would not be the right approach here.

I don't know how widely used/documented/Supported this ability was, but
I thought e.g. the pxe and isolinux cfgs made use of it.

Not sure what we can do about this. Perhaps choose another separator
("=="?) and make user-params support both?

Ian.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=51e158c12aca3c9ac63988611a97c05109b14dc9

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Source: win32-loader
Source-Version: 0.7.7

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
win32-loader, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

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 768340@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org> (supplier of updated win32-loader package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:50:11 +0100
Source: win32-loader
Binary: win32-loader
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.7.7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
Description:
 win32-loader - Debian-Installer loader for win32
Closes: 768340
Changes:
 win32-loader (0.7.7) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   The « Lineus longissimus » release
 .
   [ Cyril Brulebois ]
   * Fix typo in previous changelog entry.
 .
   [ Didier Raboud ]
   * Use '---' instead of '--' for the kernel command-line (Closes: #768340)
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