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* [Linux-ia64] Command line options to elilo from bootmanager
@ 2002-04-17 16:20 Michael Madore
  2002-04-17 16:23 ` Richard Hirst
  2002-04-17 16:58 ` Michael Madore
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael Madore @ 2002-04-17 16:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ia64

Hi,

Is it possible to pass command line options to elilo from the boot
manager menu?  For example, I would like to invoke elilo from the boot
manager with an alternate configuration file.  I tried using efibootmgr
like so:

efibootmgr -L linux-ram -l "elilo.efi -C elilo-ram.conf" -c -d /dev/sda
-p 2"

but apparently, EFI treats the "-C elilo-ram.conf" as part of the
bootloader command.

Mike


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* Re: [Linux-ia64] Command line options to elilo from bootmanager
  2002-04-17 16:20 [Linux-ia64] Command line options to elilo from bootmanager Michael Madore
@ 2002-04-17 16:23 ` Richard Hirst
  2002-04-17 16:58 ` Michael Madore
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Hirst @ 2002-04-17 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ia64

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:20:50AM -0700, Michael Madore wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to pass command line options to elilo from the boot
> manager menu?  For example, I would like to invoke elilo from the boot
> manager with an alternate configuration file.  I tried using efibootmgr
> like so:
> 
> efibootmgr -L linux-ram -l "elilo.efi -C elilo-ram.conf" -c -d /dev/sda
> -p 2"
> 
> but apparently, EFI treats the "-C elilo-ram.conf" as part of the
> bootloader command.

efibootmgr -c -d $BOOTDISK -p $BOOTPART -w -L "Debian GNU/Linux" \
	-l \\EFI\\debian\\elilo.efi -u -- elilo -C \\EFI\\debian\\elilo.conf

is what I use.  The trick is to supply a dummy 'elilo' for argv[0],
and all args after '--' are passed as arguments to elilo.efi

Richard



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* Re: [Linux-ia64] Command line options to elilo from bootmanager
  2002-04-17 16:20 [Linux-ia64] Command line options to elilo from bootmanager Michael Madore
  2002-04-17 16:23 ` Richard Hirst
@ 2002-04-17 16:58 ` Michael Madore
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael Madore @ 2002-04-17 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ia64

Richard Hirst wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:20:50AM -0700, Michael Madore wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to pass command line options to elilo from the boot
> > manager menu?  For example, I would like to invoke elilo from the boot
> > manager with an alternate configuration file.  I tried using efibootmgr
> > like so:
> >
> > efibootmgr -L linux-ram -l "elilo.efi -C elilo-ram.conf" -c -d /dev/sda
> > -p 2"
> >
> > but apparently, EFI treats the "-C elilo-ram.conf" as part of the
> > bootloader command.
> 
> efibootmgr -c -d $BOOTDISK -p $BOOTPART -w -L "Debian GNU/Linux" \
>         -l \\EFI\\debian\\elilo.efi -u -- elilo -C \\EFI\\debian\\elilo.conf
> 
> is what I use.  The trick is to supply a dummy 'elilo' for argv[0],
> and all args after '--' are passed as arguments to elilo.efi
> 
> Richard

Thanks Richard, that works for me.

Mike


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