Bug#696653: debian-installer-7.0-netboot-amd64: Initrd from PXE boot added to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
Package: debian-installer-7.0-netboot-amd64 Version: D-I 7 beta 4 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, After installing Debian Wheezy using D-I 7 beta 4 netboot, I noticed that /proc/cmdline looked strange: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=UUID=fe8bcdc8-5f22-4539-9f50-1d2a358614b2 ro initrd=debian/7x64_beta/initrd.gz quiet The last part (initrd=...) is pointing to the path used when netbooting Debian Installer. /etc/default/grub contains this line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=initrd=debian/7x64_beta/initrd.gz Everything seems to work, but I manually cleared GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and updated grub. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#696653: debian-installer-7.0-netboot-amd64: Initrd from PXE boot added to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 08:51:19 +0100, Daniel Lindgren wrote: Package: debian-installer-7.0-netboot-amd64 Version: D-I 7 beta 4 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, After installing Debian Wheezy using D-I 7 beta 4 netboot, I noticed that /proc/cmdline looked strange: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=UUID=fe8bcdc8-5f22-4539-9f50-1d2a358614b2 ro initrd=debian/7x64_beta/initrd.gz quiet The last part (initrd=...) is pointing to the path used when netbooting Debian Installer. /etc/default/grub contains this line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=initrd=debian/7x64_beta/initrd.gz Everything seems to work, but I manually cleared GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and updated grub. Care to share the pxe config? Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#696653: debian-installer-7.0-netboot-amd64: Initrd from PXE boot added to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
2012/12/25 Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 08:51:19 +0100, Daniel Lindgren wrote: Package: debian-installer-7.0-netboot-amd64 Version: D-I 7 beta 4 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, After installing Debian Wheezy using D-I 7 beta 4 netboot, I noticed that /proc/cmdline looked strange: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=UUID=fe8bcdc8-5f22-4539-9f50-1d2a358614b2 ro initrd=debian/7x64_beta/initrd.gz quiet The last part (initrd=...) is pointing to the path used when netbooting Debian Installer. /etc/default/grub contains this line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=initrd=debian/7x64_beta/initrd.gz Everything seems to work, but I manually cleared GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and updated grub. Care to share the pxe config? Cheers, Julien Sure, it looks like this: LABEL Debian7x64_beta MENU LABEL - Debian Installer 7 beta 4 64-bitars (Wheezy) KERNEL debian/7x64_beta/linux APPEND vga=788 -- INITRD debian/7x64_beta/initrd.gz I copied the interesting bits from D-I's txt.cfg: default install label install menu label ^Install menu default kernel debian-installer/amd64/linux append vga=788 initrd=debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz -- quiet Kernel, initrd.gz and txt.cfg from http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/ . Cheers, Daniel
