On Jan 2, 2013, at 12:43, Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:26:29AM -0500, Shea Levy wrote:
> 
>> Hm, ok. Does the boot stub have access to CONFIG_CMDLINE? Or could 
>> another compile-time setting be added so that distros can ship livecds 
>> that automatically use a config file found at a hard-coded location?
> 
> Just pass the config file as the first argument?
> 

But you can't set args when booting from external media (using e.g. 
\boot\efi\bootx64.efi), at least not on any system I've seen. And even if you 
could, that'd over complicate the install process for new users.

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