Syslinux - Mar 2004 - append parameter??

hi,

i am wondering about how submission of append parameters can be done.
i have the following isolinux.cfg:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
DEFAULT linux
PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 100

LABEL linux
         KERNEL vmlinuz
         APPEND initrd=initrd.gz nomce quiet
----------------------------------------------------------------------

what i want to do is to tell at start which keyboard layout to use by 
giving the propriate parameter e.g.:
linux keyboard=foo

i`am reading the given parameter in linuxrc with the following command:

CMDLINE="$(cat /proc/cmdline)"

to test if all went well i check it by executing:

echo $CMDLINE

in linuxrc. but nothing is beeing displayed!
hmmm...what am i doing wrong??

On Wednesday 31 March 2004 09:23, elmar bschorer wrote:
> i`am reading the given parameter in linuxrc with the following command:
>
> CMDLINE="$(cat /proc/cmdline)"
>
> to test if all went well i check it by executing:
>
> echo $CMDLINE
>
> in linuxrc. but nothing is beeing displayed!
> hmmm...what am i doing wrong??
I guess you don't have "cat" in your initrd... this is also
another entry in
the "Useless use of cat" award ;-) Make that

CMDLINE=$(< /proc/cmdline)

which is more effective (bash does the work as opposed to cat) and try again 
:-)
C'ya,
	Marc

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