0002143: Make it possible to override initrd preseed entries from the kernel command line

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0002143	Kali Linux	Feature Requests	public	2015-02-27 05:58	2015-11-20 21:23

Reporter	rhertzog	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Fixed in Version	2016.1

Summary	0002143: Make it possible to override initrd preseed entries from the kernel command line
Description	The fact that the initrd takes precedence over entries given on the kernel command line is a long time annoyance: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/kernel-preseed-argument-vs-preseed-cfg-doesn%27t-work-4175534979/ We should probably enhance the "preseed" udeb so that it supports a special syntax like "mirror/hostname!=my.mirror.com" that would reset the setting after having parsed the initrd preseed.

rhertzog 2015-11-17 17:02 administrator ~0004247	Filed https://bugs.debian.org/805291 to get the discussion going on the Debian side.

rhertzog 2015-11-17 22:53 administrator ~0004248	Uploaded preseed 1.62+kali1 with the fix and rebuilt debian-installer in kali-dev to test this out.

rhertzog 2015-11-20 21:23 administrator ~0004258	Confirmed that it works well, and rebuilt d-i in safi as well.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2015-02-27 05:58	rhertzog	New Issue
2015-02-27 05:58	rhertzog	Status	new => assigned
2015-02-27 05:58	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2015-11-09 13:44	~~Mr.Joe~~	Issue cloned: 0002826
2015-11-17 17:02	rhertzog	Note Added: 0004247
2015-11-17 22:53	rhertzog	Note Added: 0004248
2015-11-20 21:23	rhertzog	Note Added: 0004258
2015-11-20 21:23	rhertzog	Status	assigned => resolved
2015-11-20 21:23	rhertzog	Fixed in Version	=> 2016.1
2015-11-20 21:23	rhertzog	Resolution	open => fixed
2015-12-04 22:29	~~alexhj451~~	Issue cloned: 0002904