From: Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Command line options to elilo from bootmanager
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:23:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905470@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905469@msgid-missing>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-17 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-17 16:20 [Linux-ia64] Command line options to elilo from bootmanager Michael Madore
2002-04-17 16:23 ` Richard Hirst [this message]
2002-04-17 16:58 ` Michael Madore
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