From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) With linuxconf you can set up several profiles. You should be able to load these profiles at the boot prompt with "linux PROFILE=myprofile" or you can set up liloconf so that the profile names even show up in the graphical LILO interface at the begining of the boot process. This seems to be great however, the profile will actually not switch, that is, the boot time parameter profile is not beeing evaluated. Does it work with the new kernel 2.4.xx ? or on a different machine than mine (Dell Latitude C800)? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use LILO, get the boot prompt with ctrl-x 2. type at the boot prompt: linux PROFILE=myprofile 3. check if the profile switched from the previous to myprofile Actual Results: profile did not switch
This should not be a lilo problem. Lilo passes unknown options to the linux kernel unmodified. To check this, you can see if the file /proc/cmdline includes your PROFILE= option. If it does, that means the lilo passed the option as it was suppossed to and the problem is somewhere else (most likely in linuxconf at that point).
Yes indeed, the buggy component is not LILO but rather: Linuxconf 1.19 (subrev 2). I can switch profiles from within linuxconf -> Control -> Control panel -> Switch system profile perfectly fine however it will not work during boot time: LILO passes the option to the kernel (as can be checked from /proc/cmdline) but the corresponding profile is not loaded.
I'm switching the component to linuxconf and the assigned owner to the owner of linuxconf then so that this can be addressed.
During the boot process, the system initialization /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit takes care of networking, file systems, loading modules and so on. I guess that it should also contain program code which evaluates the boot time parameter PROFILE. However, there is no single line which contains the words linuxconf or profile. Other boot time parameters (e.g. fastboot=yes) are taken care of in this file but not the boot time parameter profile. Does anyone have a /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit which contains instructions for linuxconf and profile?
Closing because we don't ship linuxconf anymore
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.