On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 16:04 +0000, Michael Brown wrote:
> On Friday 18 Nov 2011 14:27:03 Kenneth MacDonald wrote:
> > However, today I tried this on two other computers (Dell Optiplex 780
> > and 790) and neither worked.  I had been developing this on an HP Compaq
> > dc7900.  It appeared GRUB wasn't passing iPXE the command line, or iPXE
> > wasn't picking it up.  I tried both USB pen drive and hard disk drive
> > installs of GRUB (grub-0.97-70.el6) and got the same behaviour in both.
> > 
> > So, I was excited to see the new intrd functionality added recently
> > (https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/27fdb9557266eaaadfb39a2eddfb06d2aade9
> > 661), compiled ipxe.lkrn again today and found that the initrd worked a
> > charm.  Exact same script, just copied from the previous GRUB kernel
> > command line and placed in the initrd plain text file.
> 
> Glad that the initrd functionality worked for you!  If you have a moment, 
> could you try the grub+command line approach with DEBUG=cmdline to see if it 
> shows anything useful?

I get a make error ...

-bash-4.1$ make DEBUG=cmdline
make: *** No rule to make target `bin/cmdline.dbg1.o', needed by
`bin/blib.a'.  Stop.

Cheers,

Kenny.



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