overriding command line options in LinuxBIOS

SONE Takeshi ts1 at cma.co.jp
Wed Sep 10 03:03:00 CEST 2003


On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:56:16PM -0400, Adam Agnew wrote:
> 
> Are there currently any elf loaders that boot under linuxbios which will
> let you change the default command line in kernel's made with mkelfImage
> from the serial console?
> 
> If not, can someone point me to an example of anywhere this works, perhaps
> outside of linuxbios? I'd like to add it.

How about this: define a new ELF boot note which tells the image
to ignore the embedded command line, and modify convert_params.c
in mkelfImage to respect this note.
The new command line can be passed using existing mechanism.

--
Takeshi



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