On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 14:59 -0600, Stephen Ward wrote:
> I've built a CD for the Apple PPC platform, and it works great except
> for one thing. :)  If I run lshw, it hangs the whole system when it
> comes to the point of doing some framebuffer stuff.  I've found that
> if I pass "video=ofonly" to the kernel, then lshw works just fine.  Is
> there a line I can change in one of my spec files to cause that video
> argument to be build in to my CD?  I don't want to have to type it in
> manually each time I boot. 
> 
> I've poked around in some catalyst files, and I've found
> "custom_kopts" in bootloader-setup.sh, but I don't know how to control
> that.  Any hints?

Yes.  Read the documentation.

From /usr/share/doc/catalyst-2.0.4/examples/livecd-stage2_template.spec:

# This is a set of arguments that get passed to the bootloader for your CD.  It
# is used on the x86/amd64 release media to enable keymap selection.
# example:
# livecd/bootargs: dokeymap
livecd/bootargs:

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

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