Bug#805291: preseed: Offer a way to override initrd-level preseeding with kernel command line preseeding
Hi Philip,
On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, Philip Hands wrote:
> BTW would you happen to know if the example for checksums on CDs is
> relevant any more?
>
> - if you're booting a remastered CD:
> preseed/file=/cdrom/preseed.cfg
> preseed/file/checksum=5da499872becccfeda2c4872f9171c3d
>
> which is supposedly an example where one might specify the checksum for
> the CD's preseed.cfg -- it strikes me that a) this is a bit pointless
> (although it would catch corruption of the media), and b) it presumably
> doesn't work any more, because that file will already have been used by
> the time we get to the kernel parameters.
I believe you mix up file preseeding and initrd preseeding. This file
based preseeding happens after initrd preseeding and kernel parameter
preseeding.
So the above debconf entries are defined early in the process via
"env-preseed" but they are only used later by "file-preseed".
Cheers,
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