As discussed on IRC: closing with wont-fix, as the benefit is minimal compared 
to the effort it would take to support bootparams in the initramfs, especially 
if bootparams file is on LVM/MD.

regards,
-mika-

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:59:08AM +0000, Michael Prokop wrote:
> Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> added the comment:
> * Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber wrote in grml's BTS on 20100629 / 08:55:
> > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:24:58AM +0000, Michael Prokop wrote:
> 
> > > Is there any bootoption you really could use only with initramfs? Because "grml 
> > > serial" is just an alias for "console=tty1 console=ttyS0,9600n8" and grml2ram 
> > > is "toram=grml.squashfs".
> 
> > If so, I'd like to have a possibility to have console=tty1
> > console=ttyS0,9600n8 and toram=grml.squashfs passed to the initramfs
> > by some other means than the kernel command line. The bootparam option
> > seems to have done the job just nicely.
> 
> Is there an actual issue you'd like to address?

Having a boot CD which will immediately come up with a serial console,
without having to fight with isolinux. Not too important.

Greetings
Marc

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* Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber wrote in grml's BTS on 20100629 / 08:55:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:24:58AM +0000, Michael Prokop wrote:

> > Is there any bootoption you really could use only with initramfs? Because "grml 
> > serial" is just an alias for "console=tty1 console=ttyS0,9600n8" and grml2ram 
> > is "toram=grml.squashfs".

> If so, I'd like to have a possibility to have console=tty1
> console=ttyS0,9600n8 and toram=grml.squashfs passed to the initramfs
> by some other means than the kernel command line. The bootparam option
> seems to have done the job just nicely.

Is there an actual issue you'd like to address?

regards,
-mika-

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:24:58AM +0000, Michael Prokop wrote:
> Is there any bootoption you really could use only with initramfs? Because "grml 
> serial" is just an alias for "console=tty1 console=ttyS0,9600n8" and grml2ram 
> is "toram=grml.squashfs".

If so, I'd like to have a possibility to have console=tty1
console=ttyS0,9600n8 and toram=grml.squashfs passed to the initramfs
by some other means than the kernel command line. The bootparam option
seems to have done the job just nicely.

Greetings
Marc

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I intend to close this bugreport.

Rational: For one reason live-initramfs is getting redesigned/reimplemented 
those days and I don't want to invest too much further time in the old code. 
For the other reason proper device support works in userspace much better/
reliable than in live-initramfs and adding such a feature could result in 
further complexity.

Is there any bootoption you really could use only with initramfs? Because "grml 
serial" is just an alias for "console=tty1 console=ttyS0,9600n8" and grml2ram 
is "toram=grml.squashfs".

thanks && regards,
-mika-

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 05:12:29PM -0000, Michael Prokop wrote:
> But I guess you'd like to use bootoptions which trigger the
> initramfs behaviour instead of userspace, right?

Yes, for example grml serial or grml2ram.

Greetings
Marc

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* Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber <bts@bts.grml.org> [20080512 18:56]:

> http://www.grml.org/config/grml-config.html refers to a 
> directory /cdrom/bootparams where boot parameters could be dropped into to be 
> effective during bootup without the parameters being given on the actual 
> command line.

Jepp.

> It looks to me that this useful feature has recently been dropped, as the 
> initrd does not contain the string "bootparams" (any more).
> Would it be possible to re-implement this feature?

This feature isn't part of live-initramfs but grml-autoconfig only
nowadays. (Please notice that there was a fix addressing the new
directory layout in grml-autoconfig version 0.8.4, so the old
behaviour is present in userspace as well).

But I guess you'd like to use bootoptions which trigger the
initramfs behaviour instead of userspace, right?

regards,
-mika-

Hi,

http://www.grml.org/config/grml-config.html refers to a 
directory /cdrom/bootparams where boot parameters could be dropped into to be 
effective during bootup without the parameters being given on the actual 
command line.

It looks to me that this useful feature has recently been dropped, as the 
initrd does not contain the string "bootparams" (any more).

Would it be possible to re-implement this feature?

Greetings
Marc