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
patch-floppy-image.pl
Description: Perl program
