Hi, I was busy with lots of "real life stuff", so I was away from debian-boot a while... I'm sorry for that ;-) > > So I'm no longer so sure as I once was that the parameters after "boot" > > in Open Firmware are getting passed to the kernel. Is it possible to > > modify the boot-parameters that are compiled into the kernel? For > > example, the "ofonlyboot" kernel differs from the "boot" kernel only in > > that there is a string "video=ofonly" in the former, but not in the > > latter. How does that get there? Maybe the same mechanism could be used > > to give it the "debug" and "console=ttyS0" options... > > I have the feeling that those are set using the rsrce utility. In the d-i > build, they are set in > installer/build/config/powerpc/powerpc/floppy/boot-ofonly.cfg : > > KERNEL_CMDL = root=0200 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 devfs=mount \ > video=ofonly > > and for boot.cfg : > > KERNEL_CMDL = root=0200 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 devfs=mount > > So, the best would be to build those floppies yourself and add these > values. > > They are then added to miboot config with : > > echo device $(TEMP_BOOT).new > $(TEMP)/miboot.conf; \ > echo kernel $(TEMP_KERNEL).gz $(KERNEL_CMDL) >> > $(TEMP)/miboot.conf; \ miboot -c $(TEMP)/miboot.conf; \ > > in installer/build/config/powerpc/powerpc/floppy.cfg > for the woody floppy there was a perl-script to set the command-line parameters. i'm not sure whether this script could be re-used so I've attached it, so you can have a look. Oh, and btw, I'm just installing my oldworld 4400/200 mac with d-i and the daily built 2.4-floppy images (with root.img and root-2.img) and it seems to work fine - right now. I'll keep you informed in another mail. regards, Holger
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