[ipxe-devel] ipxe.lkrn cmd line failures, but initrd success

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Mon Nov 21 17:20:31 UTC 2011


On Monday 21 Nov 2011 17:04:18 Kenneth MacDonald wrote:
> 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 ""

OK, that shows that cmdline_phys _is_ being set to a non-zero value, but that 
it seems to be pointing to an empty string.

Could you try the attached patch (with DEBUG=runtime) on both working and non-
working machines?  It should show both the original address of the command 
line and the content.

Michael
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