[syslinux] special meaning of '--' in pxelinux.cfg

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/23/2009 10:04 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> It's possible that the Debian initrd does something special with it.
> 
> jup; the debian-installer (not the installed system afterwards) cares.
> 
> anything that is passed after the '--' are appended to the default
> options for the installed system. everything before the '--' is only
> used by the installer itself.
> 

OK, that makes a lot of sense.

	-hpa

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