On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 16:50 +0000, Michael Brown wrote:
> On Monday 21 Nov 2011 11:59:00 Kenneth MacDonald wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Sorry; my fault.  I forgot that I'd renamed that file when I added the initrd 
> functionality.  "make DEBUG=runtime" should work.

OK, that did indeed work.  I should really have guessed that since I had
read the patch that renamed the file!

Anyway, on machines it works I see (in red)

Found command line "...my command line..."
Using command line "...my command line..."

And on machines it doesn't work on I see ...

Found command line ""
Using command line ""

I hope that helps.

I am assuming that GRUB does indeed set up the command line correctly,
as we use it to boot into single user Linux, etc.

Cheers,

Kenny.


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