how to pass kernel command line arguments?

how to pass kernel command line arguments?

[Steven Hanley]

All

Okay I shall be more specific, how do I pass kernel command line arguments
(say for example a video=whatever) to the kernel when booting the kernel on
the hfs floppy disk image that comes with debian potato. Does anyone know?

The debian install manual does not mnention what mechanism the floppy uses
to boot, however it is a normal mac like

[21:40:04] 5 innuendo root /mnt/floppy>ls -la
total 1203
drwx--x--x   4 root     root            9 Nov  8 21:17 ./
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 Oct  9  1998 ../
dr-x--x--x   2 root     root            9 Nov  8 21:17 .finderinfo/
dr-x--x--x   2 root     root            9 Nov  8 21:17 .resource/
-rw-------   1 root     root          300 Nov  8 21:17 .rootinfo
-rwx--x--x   1 root     root            0 Jul 25 11:45 Finder*
-rwx--x--x   1 root     root            0 Apr  7  2000 System*
-rwx--x--x   1 root     root       268171 Jul 25 11:52 System.map*
-rwx--x--x   1 root     root       961719 Nov  8 21:17 zImage*

I suspect the .rootinfo may have something to do with the bootup for linux,
though not sure and I dont know where to find docs on this stuff either.

Thanks

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Re: how to pass kernel command line arguments?

[Ethan Benson]

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On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:42:45PM +1100, Steven Hanley wrote:
> 
> All
> 
> Okay I shall be more specific, how do I pass kernel command line arguments
> (say for example a video=whatever) to the kernel when booting the kernel on
> the hfs floppy disk image that comes with debian potato. Does anyone know?

hexeditor /mnt/floppy/.resource/System

there is a resource in there somewhere that has the kernel arguments,
ive heard its not too hard to find and edit in a hex editor.
unfortunatly miboot really badly needs a text based configuration file...

> I suspect the .rootinfo may have something to do with the bootup for linux,
> though not sure and I dont know where to find docs on this stuff either.

no .rootinfo is a hfs thing, don't mess with it, all you would likely
end up doing is trashing the filesystem.  

if you have access to macos and resedit/resourcerer you might find
those simpler to edit the System file.  (beware that MacOS may make
the floppy unbootable if you mount it read-write on macos.  (ive heard
its more forgiving of floppies then disk partitions though, ymmv as
usual))

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