Bug 21124

Summary:	what about kernel arguments???
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Stig Hackvan <stig-redhat-bugzilla>
Component:	mkbootdisk	Assignee:	Matt Wilson <msw>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Dale Lovelace <dale>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Stig Hackvan 2000-11-20 15:00:37 UTC

there is no facility in mkbootdisk for passing arguments to the
kernel....like memory size and vga setting...  what gives?  why don't these
get parsed from /etc/lilo.conf?  why isn't there a single-user shortcut,
too...

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0		# maintenance reboot for fixin' stuff
	label=single
	append="single"

here is a very quick hack:
#############################################################################
#
# patch follows (vs redhat 6.1 mkbootdisk-1.2.2)
#

--- updates/mkbootdisk	Mon Nov 20 05:58:35 2000
+++ /sbin/mkbootdisk	Wed Jan 19 13:10:53 2000
@@ -148,7 +148,8 @@
 cp -Pa $rootdev $MOUNTDIR
 cp -a /boot/boot.b $MOUNTDIR/boot/boot.b
 
-cat > $MOUNTDIR/etc/lilo.conf <<EOF
+egrep '^(append|vga)' /etc/lilo.conf > $MOUNTDIR/etc/lilo.conf
+cat >> $MOUNTDIR/etc/lilo.conf <<EOF
 boot=$device
 timeout=100
 message=/boot/message

Comment 1 Stig Hackvan 2000-11-21 00:01:53 UTC

also, making boot disks shouldn't be so black box.  mkbootdisk should give out
the advice that the boot disk can be manually hacked...

it's an ext2 disk, btw, so you can hack it 
### manually:  
###
###    mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt ; vi /mnt/etc/lilo.conf ; lilo -r /mnt

IN FACT, there should be a makefile there...

lilo:
        /sbin/lilo -r `pwd`

Comment 2 Stig Hackvan 2000-11-21 00:02:24 UTC

and here's another bug that you can RE-FILE UNDER LILO:

        if a floppy has been mounted as type 'auto' in fstab,
        then lilo-0.21-15.i386.rpm will be unable to open /dev/fd0
        the floppy MUST BE MOUNTED -t ext2

Comment 3 Erik Troan 2002-06-03 18:36:51 UTC

1.4.4 supports args= properly (for both grub and lilo)