Re: bugs 64500 and 64823

[Adam Di C. <ad...@on...>]

Sven LUTHER <lu...@dp...> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:59:20AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Sven LUTHER <lu...@dp...> writes:
> > 
> > > Is there somethign special involved when dbootstrap installs from a CD ? how
> > > can we make dbootstrap install think it is installing from a CD when we are on
> > > apus ?
> > 
> > Have it pass the 'cdrom' boot argument is the easiest way.
> 
> Err, ...
> 
> how do i do that ?
> 
> for information, we launch the install process from a bootloader, some variant
> of the amiboot used by m68k/amiga. The option of it are the name of the
> kernel, the name of the root image and the usual kernel options. 

Yes, its a kernel boot argument.  surely you're boot loader lets you
pass arguments to the kernel, such that they show up in /proc/cmdline
?

> > There's a check in dbootstrap but I don't think that's working
> > quite, at least, it didn't seem to work properly on i386.
> 
> Well, i installed potato on a i386 box from a cd, and it worked in the way i
> would like it to behave.

Glad to hear that.

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