Re: bugs 64500 and 64823

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:17:09AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> 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

ok, ...

> pass arguments to the kernel, such that they show up in /proc/cmdline ?

Yes, usre, i didn't understand how you read it back though, but if you parse
/proc/cmdline, it is easy ...

> > > 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.

Will ask for a new round of testing, ...
And then upgrade the docs.

BTW, i guess another option would be to look at the place where we read
/proc/cmdline, and then set things up as if the boot arg cdrom was entered if
and only if we are on ppc and on the apus subarch. Which file should i look
for that ? mmm, maybe i should try some grepping, ...

What is the time schedule for potato r2 ? any chance to have this included (at
least the documentation fix telling about the cdrom boot option, but we are
working on a kernel + bootstrapper upgrade for apus also).

Friendly,

Sven Luther