Bug 105110

Summary:	grub passes showopts to the kernel
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	duwe
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	All
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Description Stephan Kulow 2005-08-17 08:04:38 UTC

On 9.3 showopts is not in /proc/cmdline, with 10.0 beta2 it is. I only noticed 
because I had "... init=/bin/bash showopts" in the command line and this gave 
me "/bin/bash: showopts command not found -> kernel panic".

Comment 1 Torsten Duwe 2005-08-17 09:54:06 UTC

Smells like gfxboot to me? Plain grub shows the complete line to be passed.

Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2005-08-17 10:35:30 UTC

So this happened because I left the graphical boot to enter that init= in 
grub's command line?

Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2005-08-17 10:47:45 UTC

ok, works as designed - it's just that the initrd is broken in beta2, so I 
notice