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    <tt>On 8/3/2011 01:27, Larry Brigman wrote:</tt>
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      <div class="gmail_quote"><tt>On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Shao
          Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:Shao.Miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca">Shao.Miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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          <div class="im"><tt>On 8/2/2011 20:02, Andrew Stuart wrote:<br>
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                On 8/2/2011 2:13 PM, Larry Brigman wrote:<br>
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                  I have a grub line for ipxe but it's not processing
                  the cmdline as it<br>
                  thinks there is nothing there (see attached screen
                  shot).<br>
                  I'm using the main git repo with the last commit of:<br>
                  commit 149b502306f7b5f7cc9d90cf2095f8dc6576375f<br>
                  Author: Michael Brown <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:mcb30@ipxe.org" target="_blank">mcb30@ipxe.org</a>
                  <mailto:<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:mcb30@ipxe.org" target="_blank">mcb30@ipxe.org</a>>><br>
                  Date:   Sat Jul 16 01:29:20 2011 +0100<br>
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                  Some clues on how to troubleshoot this issue?</tt>
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                While I don't have any sound troubleshooting advise for
                you, I am curious if the following commit may have broke
                something (for you).<br>
                My git-fu is non existent, but I am curious if you were
                to roll back<br>
                previous to that commit, if it would change anything.<br>
                <br>
                Also, since it appears relevant to your use, it might
                indicate where you can add some extra debug information
                to see what's going on.</tt>
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        <div><tt>I've added a little but it doesn't seem to tell me
            anything since it just says zero length.<br>
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    <tt><br>
      Just to clarify: You've responded to Andrew Stuart's post there,
      but also confirmed my guess down below.  Thanks. :)<br>
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                Mind you, I am a lurker/tinkerer. Doing as I suggest may
                very well kill<br>
                your [cat|dog|fish|child|significant other].<br>
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              ...</tt>
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                commit be600ed9967d93f5012d5277d7ce8c</tt>
              <tt>e89d135918<br>
                Author: Michael Brown <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:mcb30@ipxe.org" target="_blank">mcb30@ipxe.org</a>><br>
                Date:   Tue Jun 28 11:29:28 2011 +0100<br>
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              <tt>    [prefix] Cope with BOOT_IMAGE= anywhere within
                command line<br>
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              <tt>    Some bootloaders seem to add "BOOT_IMAGE=..." at
                the end of the<br>
                   command line; some at the start.  Cope with either
                variation.<br>
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              ...<br>
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            Woo-hoo!  What a nice feature. :)<br>
            <br>
            One of the files involved is ipxe/src/arch/i386/core/</tt>
          <tt>cmdline.c.  Your screen-shot, Larry, shows:<br>
            <br>
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          <tt>  CMDLINE found ""<br>
            <br>
            which is a message that comes before the "BOOT_IMAGE=..."
            stripping.</tt>
          <tt><br>
            <br>
            It might be interesting to add some temporary debugging code
            to show the 'len':</tt>
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          <tt>  static void cmdline_init ( void ) {<br>
             ...<br>
                 size_t len;<br>
            <br>
          </tt>
          <tt>      /* Do nothing if no command line was specified */<br>
                 if ( ! cmdline_phys ) {<br>
                     DBGC ( image, "CMDLINE found no command line\n" );<br>
                     return;<br>
                 }<br>
                 cmdline_user = phys_to_user ( cmdline_phys );<br>
                 len = ( strlen_user ( cmdline_user, 0 ) + 1 /* NUL */
            );<br>
                 DBGC ( image, "CMDLINE is %zd bytes\n", len );<br>
            <br>
          </tt>
          <tt>      /* Allocate and copy command line */<br>
             ...<br>
            <br>
            However I would guess that it'd show 0.</tt>
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      That guess.<br>
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            What version of GRUB and does a simple commandline work?:<br>
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          <tt>  kernel /ipxe.lkrn config<br>
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      <tt>Tried it with:<br>
        <br>
        kernel /ipxe.lkrn shell<br>
        <br>
        still not joy.<br>
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      Ok.  I was partly wondering if GRUB might've gotten jumbled up
      while parsing the command-line, either due to its length or due to
      the operators.  I guess not (assuming "no joy" means "same
      debugging output"). :(<br>
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      type="cite"><tt>Grub version 0.97-13.5 from Centos 5.<br>
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      Well now it is hopefully reproducible by another person, at least.<br>
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      - Shao Miller<br>
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